The Adams administration is moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a long-contaminated Brooklyn building, to be run by a group that recently entered the shelter business. According to a publication on The City news portal, the Adams administration will be opening a new shelter in Brooklyn, with about 400 beds in a building … Read more
The Adams administration is moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a long-contaminated Brooklyn building, to be run by a group that recently entered the shelter business. According to a publication on The City news portal, the Adams administration will be opening a new shelter in Brooklyn, with about 400 beds in a building … Read more
Migrant families and their advocates marched outside City Hall on Tuesday to demand that Mayor Eric Adams end his plan to limit the number of days newly arrived migrants can stay in city-operated shelters. The demonstration by students and parents in Mayor’s Park was carried out in response to the order that Adams issued last … Read more
Juan Vargas, 39, lost his leg seven years ago and makes a living working in a restaurant. He arrived from Venezuela a year ago, and step by step he has been integrating into life in New York City. He lived for several months in a shelter, but with the new rules he had to go … Read more
The phrase in search of a better life is something that we usually hear over and over again in the voices of migrants, a desire that pushes many to leave their homes despite the adversities they may encounter along the way. The reason for many behind this, family. “And the only thing I came was … Read more
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In New York, immigrants in a city-run shelter complain that relatives who moved in before them refuse to offer them a bed. In Chicago, a provider of mental health services for people in the country illegally focused on new arrivals sleeping in a police station across the street. In South Florida, some immigrants complain that … Read more
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This Thursday, municipal officials reported that with the support of the federal government and through its help center for asylum applications, in the last year and a half they have managed 10 thousand applications for asylum, TPS and work authorizations. “No one has done more for asylum seekers, for immigrants, for immigrants than the city … Read more
Erika Manrique attended a medical appointment at the Tres Puentes Community Health Center in The Bronx with her young children. To their surprise, they found a library in the waiting room. Erika Manrique, patient at Tres Puentes community health center says: “It seems to me that it is very important that there is this library … Read more
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Venezuelan Angie Viloria arrived early at St. Teresa Catholic Church on the Lower East Side to receive help filling out the TPS application. Viloria has been in NY for about a year and Temporary Protected Status would give him peace of mind for the future. “Yes, we already have a status, a legal status in … Read more
As the Adams administration prepares to open a temporary shelter for asylum seekers at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, the Fire Department is raising concerns about fire safety at the site. According to the New York Post, fire inspectors who were at the federally owned airfield say the fire hydrants are too far away and … Read more