The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, has declared a 30-day state of emergency.
the mayor of New YorkEric Adams, declared a state of emergency for 30 days this Friday to respond to the migration crisis facing the city, which is estimated to cost the city one billion dollars (the same amount in euros).
“We are in a situation where More people arrive in New York than we can immediately accommodateincluding families with babies and young children,” said the mayor, according to the CNN network.
“Once the asylum seekers from the buses that 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. Also, he has called coordinate all efforts of city agencies to create the Emergency Humanitarian Aid and Response Centers.
New York has more than 61,000 people in its asylum system, including thousands of homeless and many other refugee claimants who have been brought to the city on buses in recent months from other parts of the United States, 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 transfer these groups of people to Washington DC, New York and Chicago, as part of its response to the immigration policies of the Biden Administration, according to the same chain.
Adams has ensured that the asylum system is running at almost 100 percent capacityfor which it 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 about 5,500 migrant children they have joined the education system in schools.