New York can’t handle the arrival of immigrants sent from other countries

Thousands of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City from states bordering Mexico on buses the authorities have taken them to; According to the Homeless Alliance, many of them already come with information about shelters they should go to to find housing and opportunities. The problem is that it is saturated.

It’s a tactic Occupy republican countriessuch as Texas and Arizona, in response to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, by sending immigrants – mostly from Latin America – to more receptive regions, and of course Democrats, as in New York or the District of Columbiawhere the nation’s capital is located, Washington, DC.

But their hopes for the Big Apple come against shelters without beds, without enough Spanish-speaking staff and 12% more crowded than last March.

“We know that they enter from other cities or from the same borders sometimes,” he said. The Voice of America Taisha Milagros Clark, Analyst for the Homeless Coalition. “In the shelters there is not much space, there was not much capacity per se, but now we can say much less.”

More than 2,800 asylum seekers are already registered with New York’s shelter system, and at least four families have reportedly waited in long lines in the midst of a heat wave, without enough food and unable to locate them as quickly as the law requires. Alliance.

New York Mayor Eric Adams himself criticized the Texas and Arizona governments for getting rid of immigrants and Urgent help request for the federal government.

Adams said the city’s homeless shelters do not have the resources to house the largest number of immigrants and need additional money from Washington to provide housing for new arrivals.

He also criticized Texas and Arizona, saying, “These two states send people to New York without any kind of communication or coordination.” However, he promised to carry out the mission “as a New Yorker” and promised to receive and help immigrants.

A homeless man who arrived Thursday at a men’s shelter in Bellevue, one of the centers where migrants are reported to have arrived from the border, said he saw at least 15 of them.

Deborah, a Hispanic who lives in a women’s shelter, told The Voice of America in Spanglish Provided assistance.

When you go to the shelters [albergues]you can do accommodation [solicitar opciones de vivienda] Section 8, HRA, City Pheps. They give you a different order depending on what you want, a studio or a room, and the number of people.”

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