“The American dream is the right to work, the right to support your family,” the Democratic mayor said at an event in a public square in lower Manhattan, not far from City Hall, surrounded by officials from his administration, hoteliers , unions, aid organizations and asylum seekers.
“We must expedite work visas. It’s common sense. There are thousands of jobs available that need to be filled, to provide the services we need in the city, in the state and in the country,” he said.
According to Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York Hospitality Alliance, in this industry alone, more than 10,000 jobs are available, for which they “can’t find Americans or enough people who are currently authorized to work to fill them.”
“Small businesses are being hurt,” he said.
“So not only is it morally right to speed up work permits, but it has a powerful economic impact to help our small businesses still trying to recover from the pandemic,” he told AFP.
With more than 100,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York since April of last year, obliged by law to provide shelter to all who request it, the mayor’s office of the financial capital and world tourism mecca of 8.5 million people, faces an unprecedented crisis.
Over three years, the city will dedicate $12 billion to address the immigration crisis, the mayor announced in early August.
Currently, around 60,000 asylum seekers depend on the care of the municipality to sleep, eat, dress and send their children to school. Tens of hundreds more continue to arrive every week.
The New York authorities are trying to ensure that the responsibility for the crisis is assumed by the federal government.
Following Adams’s meetings in Washington earlier this month, state Gov. Kathy Hochul met with members of the Democratic administration on Wednesday to discuss a “series of immediate and tangible steps,” including work permits, she said in a statement after the meeting.
On Monday, more than 120 executives, including Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Larry Fink of the Blackrock investment fund and Jane Fraser of Citigroup, sent a letter to President Joe Biden and congressional leaders urging them to heed New York’s demands. York.
In addition to work permits, the mayor of New York requires his co-religionists in the federal government to declare a state of emergency to manage the crisis at the border and to distribute asylum seekers equitably throughout all the cities of the country.
2023-08-31 18:43:09
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