New York Cioty Mayor Adams is starting a new departement that will handdle migrant affairs in the Big Apple and will alos seek to help migrants move on to other location’s in others places……
The city thinks it will spend more than. $4 Billion on the effort…..
New York State will contribute $500 Million for the next two years….
The Feds will send about $800 Million….
The process seems to becoming a norm…..
The newly formed Office of Asylum Seeker Operations will coordinate the city’s efforts to house migrants and provide them with access to legal services in one place, moving migrants away from the current arrival point at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
More on Migrants in New York
New York City has always welcomed and depended on immigrants. But a new wave of people crossing the U.S. border is testing the city’s reputation as a world sanctuary.
- Homelessness on the Rise: The arrival of new migrants, mostly from Latin America, has pushed the population of the city’s homeless shelter system to record levels and stretched services past their capacity.
- Right to Shelter: One reason New York is under strain is because the city is required by law to give shelter to anyone who asks.
- Move-Outs: As the Adams administration began to move single men into a shelter at a cruise terminal to cope with the influx of newcomers, some of the migrants refused to go.
- The Other Migrant Crisis: Another, hidden wave of people has been arriving in the city from Latin America: African migrants. Their plight has been largely overlooked.
The city’s new blueprint also calls for coordinating with other cities willing to accept asylum seekers and creating a partnership with the State University of New York Sullivan, which agreed to take in 100 asylum seekers who would live on the school’s campus and receive work force training skills.
“I am concerned about what’s going to happen when the borders reopen. New York City is still a destination,” Mr. Adams said. “There’s still fake Facebook pages in countries that are stating: ‘come to New York,’” the mayor added. “So I am concerned, and so we need to be prepared for whatever is in the future.”….