Mayor new YorkEric Adams declared a state of emergency for 30 days this Friday. to answer immigration crisis overlooking the city, which is estimated to cost the city one billion dollars (the same amount of euros).
“We are in such a situation that More people are coming to New York than we can immediately accommodate.Including families with babies and young children,” the mayor said, according to the CNN network.
“When shelter is allocated to the refugees from the buses arriving today, we will exceed the historical maximum number of people hosted in the city’s public asylum system,” he assured.
The mayor has appealed for help at the federal and state levels to manage the continuing influx of asylum seekers. He also called coordinating all the efforts of city agencies Establishing Emergency Humanitarian Aid and Response Centers.
There are more than 61,000 people in New York’s asylum system. thousands homeless and many other refugee rights holders Adams explained that in recent months he has been brought to the city by buses from other parts of the United States.
The local representative guessed more than 17,000 refugees Transferred to New York from the southern border since April of this year.
Only in the first week of October, Texas would have allocated more than $18 million to transfer these groups According to the same chain, people travel to Washington DC, New York, and Chicago as part of the Biden Administration’s response to immigration policies.
Adams’ asylum system running at almost 100% capacityIt expects to spend close to one billion euros by the end of the year to manage the migrant flow.
About 42 hotels have been designated as emergency shelters, and about 5,500 migrant children joined the education system in schools.