Each asylum seeker costs New York City an average of $383 a day, according to calculations by Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams accounts for the cost of the arrival of new immigrants. In this fiscal year the expenditure has been almost 3.600 million dollars, this at the gates of receiving 100,000 asylum seekers who have entered the city since spring of last year.
More than half are under the protection of the city.
This means, according to the municipality, that it will cost the city some 12,000 million dollars in this and the following two fiscal years to be able to protect immigrants if the government -at the federal and state levels- does not take more forceful actions.
Actions like:
1. Expedite work authorizations so that asylum seekers can obtain employment quickly.
2. Declare a state of emergency to manage the crisis at the border.
3. Implement a federal decompression strategy to ensure that the flow of asylum seeker arrivals is distributed more fairly.
4. And, increase the number of state-run and state-provided sites.
We spoke to the Legal Aid Society supporting the city’s request:
“We were in court last week and the judge made it very clear that New York State has to work together with the city to solve that problem and provide more help to the city; that is, money, space, buildings,” says Edward Josephson, supervising attorney for the Legal Aid Society.
For their part, some migrants say that all they hope is to be able to work as soon as possible:
“What we want is to project ourselves at work, because we come for an American dream, we come for the American dream to get ahead, build a house in our country, not fall into the streets because if we were to fall in the street to pick up bottles in the street it would We are going to hang out with vice, we are going to collapse in alcohol and stuff,” said an immigrant who did not want to give his name.
And others reiterate their support:
“As a migrant, I believe that we all have the opportunity, but as long as it is for the better. On the one hand, it’s good to support them, but on the other, you have to put the good points on them, clarify the situation and that there is a law that they really have to comply with and abide by because at home they cannot do the same thing that they come to do in another country,” says Emily Álvarez, a resident of the city.
And outside the Hotel Roosevelt we no longer see the long lines of male immigrants as in recent days, since the city has managed to place them in temporary places with the help of organizations such as the city’s churches.
2023-08-10 16:47:00
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