By Maurin Picard
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
Asylum seekers wait in Manhattan at the end of July to be admitted to the Roosevelt Hotel, which has been transformed into an asylum processing center for migrants. Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
STORY – For four months, undocumented immigrants have been arriving at the rate of 2,400 people per week, by bus or plane, in groups or individually. Over the course of a year, the staggering figure rises to 110,000 wandering souls. According to the city’s mayor, this wave “threatens to destroy New York.”
New York is suffocating. An overwhelming heat wave crushes the city in the middle of the school year, overtaken by a scandal of unforeseen proportions. For four months, undocumented immigrants have been arriving at the rate of 2,400 people per week, by bus or by plane, in groups or individually. Over the course of a year, the staggering figure rises to 110,000 wandering souls. There are still 62,000 who depend on municipal services, while the others are redirected to rural communities, one or two hours away, in scattered hotels. Their origins? 41% Venezuelans, 18% Ecuadorians, 13% Colombians, not counting a few hundred Russians transiting through Mexico, too.
Across the Big Apple, makeshift reception centers have opened to process this historic flood of asylum seekers. Two hundred sites, in total, were requisitioned, mainly under giant marquees but also 15 “mega shelters”, solid buildings with a high reception capacity…
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2023-09-10 17:41:37
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