NewsUSANew York declares a state of emergency to respond to the immigration crisis that is collapsing its asylum system

New York declares a state of emergency to respond to the immigration crisis that is collapsing its asylum system

New York Mayor Eric Adams. File, Archive. – MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, declared this Friday a state of emergency for 30 days to respond to the migration crisis facing the city, which he estimates will cost the city one billion dollars (the same amount in euros).

“We are in a situation where more people are arriving in New York than we can immediately accommodate, including families with babies and young children,” the mayor said, according to CNN.

“Once the asylum seekers from the buses who have arrived today are assigned a shelter, we will exceed the historical maximum of people housed in the city’s public asylum system,” he assured.

The mayor has called for help at the federal and state levels to manage the continuing flow of asylum seekers. Likewise, he has called to coordinate all the efforts of the city agencies to create the Emergency Humanitarian Aid and Response Centers.

New York has more than 61,000 people in its asylum system, which includes thousands of homeless people and many other refugee claimants who have been transferred to the city on buses in recent months from other parts of the United States, has Adams explained.

The local representative has estimated that more than 17,000 asylum seekers have been transferred to New York from the southern border since April of this year.

In the first week of October alone, the state of Texas would have allocated more than 18 million dollars to move these groups of people to Washington DC, New York and Chicago, as part of its response to the immigration policies of the Biden Administration. , as collected by the same chain.

Adams has assured that the asylum system is operating at almost 100 percent of its capacity, for which he expects to have spent close to a billion euros by the end of the year on managing the migratory flow.

As many as 42 hotels have been designated as emergency shelters and nearly 5,500 migrant children have joined the education system in schools.

Source: Europa Press

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