NEW YORK — New York City has already received 97,000 immigrants seeking asylum since an unprecedented wave began a year ago, and estimates that by next weekend it will already have exceeded 100,000, it said Tuesday. Immigration Commissioner Manuel de Castro.
Castro, who attended the media in a guided tour of the new giant accommodation in Creedmoor, in the Queens neighborhood, with capacity for a thousand people – single men, and not families – specified that of the 97,000, more than 60,000 are still under the care of the public services of New York, both in accommodation and food or school for the children.
The giant Creedmoor hostel has been built on the premises of a disused former 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 the operation has been financed by the State of New York, after Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly complained that the city cannot alone face the enormous financial and logistical burden of welcoming all these immigrants, in mostly Latin American.
Mayor Adams last week put a number to all this budgetary cost: 12,000 million dollars the city will pay this year and the next two to serve immigrants.
The first tenants are expected to arrive this afternoon, once the journalists have left, while another similar shelter is being built on Randall’s Island, eastern New York.
New York City is unique in the United States in that a decades-old law obliges it to provide a roof for any homeless person, and this detail, along with the more abundant job opportunities, is what has attracted immigrants in large numbers. higher proportion than other cities or states in the country.
However, Mayor Adams has recently imposed a sixty-day limit on each person arriving at a public shelter; after that time, and if he has not found another alternative, he has to reapply to be housed in the public system again.
One of the main problems that immigrants encounter is the delay in obtaining a work permit -it usually takes an average of twelve months-, since without it they cannot emancipate themselves from municipal services, unless they decide to work without a work permit and thus risk expulsion.
2023-08-16 01:19:00
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