The city of NY has already received 97,000 immigrants in search of asylum since an unprecedented wave began a year ago, and estimates that next weekend it will already have exceeded the figure of 100,000, Immigration Commissioner Manuel de Castro said Tuesday.
Castro, who attended the media on a guided visit to the new accommodation giant of creedmoorin the Queens neighborhood, with a capacity for a thousand people – single men, and not families – specified that of the 97,000, there are more than 60,000 who are still under the care of the public services of NYboth in accommodation like in feeding or school for children.
He hostel giant of creedmoor It has been built on the premises of an old disused psychiatric hospital, and consists of four tents: a collective dormitory with camp cots, a dining room and call center, registry offices and public toilets.
Its assembly and part of its operation has been financed by the State of NYafter the alcalde Eric Adams has repeatedly complained that the city cannot handle the enormous financial and logistical burden of hosting all these immigrantsMostly Latin American.
He mayor adams Last week he put a number on all this budget cost: 12,000 million dollars will be paid by the city this year and the next two to serve the immigrants.
The first tenants are expected to arrive this afternoon, once the journalists have left, while another hostel similar in the randall’s islandis of NY.
The city of NY has the peculiarity in the United States that a ley of several decades obliges him to provide a roof for any homeless person, and that detail, together with the most abundant job opportunities, is what has attracted immigrants in a much higher proportion than other cities or states in the country.
However the mayor adams has recently imposed a sixty-day limit on each person arriving at a hostel public; after that time, and if you have not found another alternative, you have to reapply to be hosted again in the public system.
One of the main problems encountered by immigrants is the delay in getting a work permit -they usually take an average of twelve months-, because without it they cannot be emancipated from the municipal services, unless they decide to work without work permit and thus risk expulsion.
2023-08-15 17:56:00
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