– The mayor of New York calls for more work permits from the state
Eric Adams wants to get more work permits from the US federal state to cope with the influx of economic migrants in New York.
Published: 31.08.2023, 22:37
At the beginning of August, Eric Adams had estimated the cost of the migration “crisis” in his megalopolis at 12 billion dollars over three years.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams, faced since 2022 with an influx of economic migrants and asylum seekers, called on the federal state on Thursday for more work permits so that these undocumented foreigners can realize their “American dream”.
“The American dream is the right to work, the right to provide for your family,” said the city councilor, a former African-American policeman from the right wing of the Democratic Party, during a rally. in a square in the south of Manhattan, surrounded by representatives of trade unions and employers’ organizations, in particular from the hotel and restaurant industry, and NGOs.
“It’s common sense”
“We need to speed up (issuing) work visas. It’s common sense. There are thousands of jobs available that need to be filled, to provide the services we need for the city, New York State and the entire country,” he insisted.
At his side, Andrew Rigie, director of New York Hospitality Alliance, an organization of restaurateurs, bar owners, estimated at “10,000” the number of jobs available in this sector and for which he “cannot find a job. Americans, nor enough (foreign) people allowed to work”.
While many fast food and food delivery businesses in New York run on cheap – and sometimes undocumented – labor, Mr. Rigie deemed it “morally right” to fast-track the process of obtaining permits. work. In addition, he told AFP, it would have “a strong economic impact to help small businesses recovering from the pandemic”.
“National Crisis”
At the beginning of August, Eric Adams had estimated at 12 billion dollars over three years the cost that the migration “crisis” could represent in his megalopolis, confronted since April 2022 with the arrival of 100,000 refugees, economic migrants and asylum seekers. from Latin America and recently from West Africa.
New York, a world-city which has built its legend on successive waves of immigration, has a legal obligation to house and feed all new arrivals, regardless of their status Currently, nearly 108,000 people are housed in homes, hotels, vacant apartments. Some 56,000 are asylum seekers.
But the city of 8.5 million souls has been alerting New York State and the federal administration for a year to a “national crisis that it cannot manage alone”. The governor of the state, the democrat Kathy Hochul, was received Wednesday evening at the White House, which announced measures of “support” in New York to identify all the “migrants eligible for work permits”.
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