US New York City Tells Migrants There’s ‘No Guarantee’ of Finding Help Here - Mayor Eric Adams announced new shelter rules for some asylum seekers, and will begin discouraging migrants at the southern border from coming to New York City.

New York City Tells Migrants There’s ‘No Guarantee’ of Finding Help Here
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Jeffery C. Mays
2023-07-20 02:16:47GMT

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More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022, and close to 55,000 are still in the city’s care.Credit...Juan Arredondo for The New York Times

New York City will immediately begin discouraging asylum seekers from seeking refuge here, distributing fliers at the southern border that warn migrants there is “no guarantee” they will receive shelter or services, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Wednesday.

The city’s move is a sharp and somewhat unexpected departure from its long-held status as a sanctuary city, and as a place that guarantees a right to shelter.

“We have no more room in the city,” Mr. Adams said during a news conference at City Hall.

As part of the city’s shift in strategy, it will now require single adult migrants to reapply for shelter after 60 days, a move that the mayor said was designed to make room for families with children. Mr. Adams said the city would intensify efforts to help the migrants connect with family, friends or outside networks in order to find alternative housing arrangements.

If alternative housing arrangements are not available, single adult asylum seekers will have to return to the intake center and reapply for housing. It is unclear what would happen if there is not housing available at the intake centers.

Immigrant and housing advocates questioned whether the changes were legal and would lead to increased street homelessness.

“I have worked with thousands of people over the years whose lives were saved because of the right to shelter,” said Craig Hughes, a social worker with Mobilization for Justice, a nonprofit legal services group. “The idea that there’s some imaginary place that people are going to go off to besides city streets is just false.”

More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022 and close to 55,000 are still in the city’s care. Combined with the city’s existing homeless population, more than 105,800 people are being sheltered by the city, a record.

The city has opened more than 188 sites to house migrants, including 18 humanitarian relief centers. From July 10-16, 2,800 new migrants arrived, according to Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor for health and human services.

Our compassion is infinite,” said Dr. Ted Long, senior vice president at NYC Health + Hospitals, the agency that operates much of the emergency housing for migrants. “Our space is not.”

The fliers, however, do not convey much compassion. Available in English and Spanish, they describe New York City’s high cost of housing, food and transportation. An accompanying illustration shows arrows pointing north from the border to South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and three other states — but not New York.

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Brad Lander, the city comptroller, said the announcement undermined the right to shelter and “the defining role of New York as a beacon of promise inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.”Credit...NYC Mayor’s Office

“There is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals,” the flier reads. “Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.,” it concludes.

The city, however, remains under a decades-old court order that requires it to provide shelter to anyone who needs a bed.

Brad Lander, the city comptroller, said the announcement undermined the right to shelter and “the defining role of New York as a beacon of promise inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty.”

Advocates have called on city officials to make room in the shelter system by more quickly moving those experiencing homelessness from shelter to permanent housing. Mr. Adams and the City Council recently sparred over legislation that would eliminate a rule requiring a 90-day stay in shelter before becoming eligible for a city housing voucher.

The mayor vetoed a package of legislation and temporarily revoked the 90-day rule. The City Council easily overrode the mayor’s veto last week.

“I think that the real solution here is not continuously doing half measures and short cuts,” said Murad Awawdeh, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition. “It’s actually doing the work of getting people out of the shelter system and into permanent housing.”

The mayor and city officials continued to criticize the federal government for not providing expedited work authorizations and for not forcing other jurisdictions to help absorb the influx of migrants. The city has estimated that it would spend $4 billion through the next fiscal year to house and feed the asylum seekers.

Mr. Adams said the city has had to shift its strategy as the number of migrants overwhelms the city’s ability to house them.

One strategy has involved sending migrants outside the city, which has sued municipalities that have tried to block those efforts. Mr. Adams also asked a judge to relieve the city of its unique right to shelter obligations.

Hildalyn Colón Hernández, deputy director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, a nonprofit that supports immigrant workers, said she understood the pressure the city was facing, but that the challenge of finding housing would be extraordinarily difficult for new arrivals who are struggling to learn English, find work and obtain basic documents needed to attain housing.

“Even regular New Yorkers that have been here and have jobs have not been able to get affordable housing,” Ms. Colón Hernández said. “One hundred percent of the migrants who come here will tell you that their priority is to get a job and get out of shelter.”
 
Hundreds of migrants line up early on Aug. 1, 2023, for placement at the Roosevelt Hotel intake center in New York. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
Look at all those black men.
Not a lot of latino women and children I can see. I'm sure they're around somewhere. Maybe they're in the hotels. That's it. Surely.
 
Oh god I love this shit so much. I despise how detached from reality all the "LET THEM IN" bullshit was, and seeing them have to actually deal with reality is just too good.
It's easy to preach stupid shit when you're not the one actually having to deal with it. Every shitlib who preaches open borders should be forced to house migrants.
 
The only humanitarian thing is to make sure every migrant can take refuge in a sanctuary city; why, it's criminal that the border states are keeping so many migrants held hostage there! Mayor Adams should put his money where his mouth is and demand that the border states stop withholding the migrants from his city.
 
Words cannot accurately describe the mirth I feel knowing virtue signaling faggots with no self-preservation instincts are being eaten alive by the shitskin hordes they screech so fervently in favor of. Here's a toast to another 4000 buses full of niggers, and many more, until Manhattan sinks into the fucking ocean and beyond. Don't call it a grave, you did this to yourselves, Jew Yorkians. Drown them in the sea of shit they desire.
 
Biden administration knocks New York for issues with migrant influx
Politico (archive.ph)
By Katelyn Cordero
2023-08-28 11:27:34GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Biden administration pushed back Monday at criticism that it hasn’t done enough to help New York address its migrant crisis, citing two dozen areas where the city can strengthen its migrant operations.

Two letters obtained by POLITICO were sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams on Monday from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in response to the city and state’s concerns over not getting more help from the federal government.

Mayorkas mentioned structural and operational issues found during a week-long assessment of the city’s operations starting on Aug. 7, but didn’t give specifics, saying the recommendations would be first shared Monday with the city.

“The structural issues include governance and organization of the migrant operations, including issues of authority, structure, personnel, and information flow,” Mayorkas wrote. “The operational issues include the subjects of data collection, planning, case management, communications, and other aspects of day-to-day operations.”

An official familiar with the recommendations to the city said it includes improving data collection at intake, better communication with the migrants and bolstering information for the migrants regarding their ability to apply for work authorization and the need to apply for asylum.

“We are hopeful that our recommendations will equip the city to take additional steps to improve the migrant operations and maximize the value of our continued partnership and your support,” Mayorkas added.

The letters come after Hochul took to the podium last week saying the crisis “originated with the federal government, and it must be resolved with the federal government.”

In her address and in a letter to the Biden administration, Hochul requested they identify federally owned land and sites to use as temporary shelters for the roughly 100,000 asylum-seekers that landed in New York City this year.

In response, Mayorkas said the Biden administration provided access to a hangar at John F. Kennedy Airport and identified 11 federal sites across the state to house migrants as the city faces an influx of 100,000 asylum-seekers over the past year that has strained city services.

“We look forward to hearing from the city and state on the viability of these sites,” he said in his letter to Hochul.

In addition, he pointed to a lease for the temporary use of Floyd Bennett Field to house migrants. He said a lease was sent to the city and state on Aug. 21, by the Department of Interior and a team has been discussing the lease in person.

“DOI seeks to finalize that lease as soon as you are ready,” he said.

Avi Small, a spokesperson for the governor, told POLITICO that many of the sites proposed by the federal government have been far away from New York City, where migrants are located. He noted the state is ready to move forward with the lease for Floyd Bennett Field, but referred to City Hall as to why it has not been signed yet.

“As Governor Hochul has repeatedly said, this crisis will only abate once the federal government takes action on work authorization and allows migrants to be resettled permanently, and we look forward to learning additional details from the Department of Homeland Security during today’s briefing,” Small said to POLITICO.

As for the operational and structural concerns, Small referred to a letter from Hochul’s attorney sent out earlier this month detailing concerns in the city’s efforts.

For its part, the city said it was pleased to see the federal government more engaged in its plight.

“But New Yorkers deserve the facts, so let’s be clear: Our requests from the federal government remain the same, and quite frankly, unaddressed,” Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said in a statement.

Among the requests include “a decompression strategy at the border,” expedited work authorizations for asylum-seekers and the declaration of a state of emergency to get more federal aid to the city, which has spent $1.7 billion on programs and services. The city said it has already opened more than 200 sites, but a review found that 2,800 that were not useable as shelters.

“Today’s conversation also did not address the situation on the ground where thousands of asylum seekers continue to arrive in our city with no end in sight,” Mamelak added.

In regards to the calls by Hochul to “let them work,” Mayorkas said his department is aware of the need to issue work authorization in a timely manner and is considering changes to make the process faster. But, he did note that there are statutory constraints that hinder these efforts.

A White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said a specific statutory constraint holding up the process is the 150-day waiting period required before asylum-seekers can apply for a work permit. That’s along with an additional 30 days of waiting before they can receive an employment authorization document.

“We are exploring all options available to improve operational efficiency, including through additional staffing and technology improvements to streamline case processing, as well as improved methods of communicating information about the employment authorization process with noncitizens,” Mayorkas said.
 
Start bussing these locusts en mass to DC, Wilmington, Martha's Vineyard etc. Literally anywhere where faggot politicians and their supporters feel safe, start bussing them there.

It would be an hilarious victory if these dem cities started sending them to other dem controlled areas and DC.
 
Start bussing these locusts en mass to DC, Wilmington, Martha's Vineyard etc. Literally anywhere where faggot politicians and their supporters feel safe, start bussing them there.
The last time they did thatin Martha's Vineyard the nimbys broke out the Nasty Girls. It's a pretty good idea to do it again for a longer time.
 
The last time they did thatin Martha's Vineyard the nimbys broke out the Nasty Girls. It's a pretty good idea to do it again for a longer time.

Yup.. The big cities aren't good enough, the people who REALLY need to be made to face this issue head on are all the super rich, super elite communities around the country. These are the people behind the media, companies and power... behind the problem actually!
 
As Migrant Crisis Worsens, New York Leaders Pressure Biden to Do More
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Jeffery C. Mays
2023-09-01 13:55:32GMT

A broad coalition of civic, business and union leaders has come together to apply pressure on Washington to help with the migrant crisis in New York.

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After months of mostly working behind the scenes, a force of municipal, business and labor leaders in New York has begun a public campaign to highlight how they believe Washington has failed to adequately address the migrant crisis that has overwhelmed the city in recent months.

As part of that effort, Mayor Eric Adams staged a rally just outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse on Thursday and called on federal officials to expedite work authorization for asylum seekers. He was joined by union leaders, state lawmakers and a handful of migrants, all standing beneath a red, white and blue flag banner with the slogan, “The American Dream Works.”

“We are united on the same concept and belief that the precursor to sleep that allows us to experience the American dream is the right to work, the right to prevail, the right to provide for your family,” Mr. Adams said at the rally.

The day before, Gov. Kathy Hochul met with White House officials to push the Biden administration for more support, days after she shifted tactics and began to publicly call on Mr. Biden to speed work authorizations. She emerged from the meeting in Washington hopeful but still dissatisfied that the help offered was “not enough to fully address this crisis.”

And earlier this week, more than 120 of the city’s top business executives co-signed a letter to President Biden and congressional leaders that urged them to provide more federal assistance.

The pleas for help come amid signs that the influx of migrants into New York has still not reached a peak. From Aug. 21-27, more than 2,900 new asylum seekers arrived in the city, according to Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor for health and human services.

Of the 107,000 migrants who have arrived since last year, almost 60,000 are still in the city’s care. The influx has increased the number of people in shelter to a record-breaking 115,000. The city has opened over 200 sites and humanitarian relief centers to house and process the migrants, which officials estimate will cost $5 billion this year, as much as the budgets for the parks, fire and sanitation departments combined.

Mr. Adams said the current flow of migrants could cost $12 billion over three years, exceeding the city’s current fiscal and physical capacity to deal with the crisis — a reality that has brought consensus among many New York leaders, even some who do not typically see eye to eye.

Indeed, there has been broad disagreement over where to house the migrants. Mr. Adams has called on Ms. Hochul to facilitate the flow of migrants to counties in upstate New York, a prospect the governor has strongly resisted.

And when city officials seek new shelter sites within the five boroughs, they often run into deep opposition from residents and local elected officials, who have staged their own protests, especially in cases that involve the use of schools, ball fields and tent cities.

The city has also tried to lessen the problem through legal and strategic measures. The mayor has asked a judge to relieve the city of its legal obligation to provide shelter to anyone who asks, and has imposed a 60-day limit on adult migrants at some shelters.

And in an effort to slow the spread of migrants into New York, the city began distributing fliers at the southern border telling asylum seekers that the cost of living in New York City was high and there was “no guarantee” that they would receive help, in spite of the city’s legal obligation to provide shelter to anyone who asks.

Jessica Ramos, a state senator from Queens, has criticized the Adams administration on many of those actions, but she appeared onstage at the rally to support the mayor’s call for expedited work authorization.

“There is no reason anybody should be denied the right to work as they undergo the immigration process,” Ms. Ramos said. “People shouldn’t be denied the right to provide for themselves and their families.”

Brad Lander, the city comptroller, has also sparred with Mr. Adams over the city’s handling of the influx of migrants around spending. The mayor lashed out at Mr. Lander in June, questioning whether he had lobbied Washington for help. Yet the two put aside their differences on Thursday, with Mr. Lander speaking at the rally.

“Look, this is something — for all the sniping and naysaying — that we can genuinely work together on,” Mr. Lander said.

Jumaane Williams, the public advocate, said the unified call for work authorization was politically powerful: “They can’t just say it’s the mayor now,” he said as he left the rally.

Ms. Hochul, who did not attend the rally, said in a statement on Wednesday that expedited work authorization for migrants was her “top priority” and the “only way to help asylum seekers become self-sustaining, so they can move into permanent housing.”

The governor’s meeting came after the Biden administration issued a letter this week from Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the Homeland Security secretary, saying that the federal government had identified “structural and operational issues” with the city’s management of the influx of migrants.

Ms. Hochul had issued a similar letter two weeks ago, questioning the mayor’s management of the crisis and criticizing the city for failing to take offers of assistance from the state. Both the state and federal government said the city had not prioritized helping migrants fill out the necessary paperwork to apply for work permits.

Mr. Adams, who has criticized both President Biden and Ms. Hochul for not doing enough to help the city, responded harshly to the criticism at the rally on Thursday.

“Don’t critique what we’ve done. Don’t tell us how we could have done it better,” Mr. Adams said, his voice rising. “Don’t sit in the bleachers and be a detached spectator on this full contact sport called asylum seekers. Get on the field and fight this battle with us.”

Following the meeting with Ms. Hochul, the Biden administration said it would initiate a month of action in September to send teams of people to help asylum seekers in New York apply for work permits, asserting that a “substantial number of recent migrants who arrived in New York City are currently work eligible but have not yet applied to get a work permit.”

Ninaj Raoul, executive director of the group Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, said that she supported the mayor’s call for expedited work permits but that many of the Haitian arrivals who were eligible to apply for work authorization had not been helped.

“If someone has humanitarian parole, the first thing you do is apply for work authorization,” Ms. Raoul said.

Nuvia Veloz, a migrant who said she fled danger in Ecuador with her husband and 16-year-old son, arrived in January but has not been able to get a work permit. Ms. Veloz, who attended the rally, said she had accumulated debt fleeing to the United States and had family members still in Ecuador who needed help.

“At this point, the most important thing is to work,” Ms. Veloz said through a translator from Mixteca, an organization that supports Latino immigrants. “It’s a horrible feeling to not be able to help.”
 
Haha, eat shit, compassionate and caring liberals. It's a different fucking story when YOU'RE the ones being affected by your own professed beliefs, eh?

Want to know how to end this constant invasion of Mestizos? - Compulsory castration for the males, sterilisation for the females, and irrevocable slavery until death.
 
In Escalation, Adams Says Migrant Crisis ‘Will Destroy New York City’
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
2023-09-07 16:24:55GMT

Mayor Eric Adams escalated his rhetoric over the migrant crisis, claiming in stark terms that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of migrants from the southern border and saying that he did not see a way to fix the issue.

“Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to — I don’t see an ending to this,” the mayor said on Wednesday night in his opening remarks at a town hall-style gathering in Manhattan. “This issue will destroy New York City.”

Mr. Adams, a Democrat in his second year in office, has clashed with leading members of his party as New York City has struggled to provide housing and services to the migrants, who now number 110,000. For months, Mr. Adams has criticized President Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul for failing to help the city provide for the asylum seekers and pleaded for additional funding and expedited work permits.

But the mayor’s comments on Wednesday were his most ominous yet, and they drew praise from Republicans and condemnation from some Democrats.

On Wednesday, Mr. Adams pointed to new projections that the city’s budget gap could grow to nearly $12 billion — the same amount that city officials estimate that the migrants could cost the city over three years.

“Every community in this city is going to be impacted,” Mr. Adams said at the meeting. “We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut — every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us.”

The surge of migrants crossing the southern border has overwhelmed city shelters and led to the opening of more than 200 emergency sites to house them. As New York City students returned to school on Thursday, city officials said that about 20,000 migrant children were expected to join them.

Republicans have increasingly used the mayor’s criticism of Mr. Biden as a talking point ahead of the 2024 presidential election. On Tuesday, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House, quoted Mr. Adams in a statement that argued that the “Biden Border Crisis is hurting the country.”

“Mayor Adams is right,” Mr. McCarthy said. “New York City deserves better.”

Fabien Levy, Mr. Adams’s deputy mayor for communications, responded by criticizing “Trump Republicans” for failing to pass immigration reform in Congress.

But the mayor’s office has also continued to criticize Mr. Biden this summer, saying last week that the city’s requests for help were still mostly “unaddressed” and calling for a federal emergency and a national “decompression strategy at the border.”

Mr. Adams repeated the critique on Wednesday.

“We’re getting no support on this national crisis,” he said.

New York City has a mandate that it must provide shelter to anyone who needs it — a policy that has presented an enormous challenge for Mr. Adams, who has tried to weaken the mandate through legal and strategic measures. He has sought to appear welcoming to migrants while also raising alarm about the financial impact of hosting them.

In recent weeks, the mayor has tried to heighten awareness of the current and looming impact of the crisis, holding rallies and coordinating social media campaigns. In particular, Mr. Adams has focused on how it was hurting New York City’s budget and would prompt widespread cuts to city services.

He has received criticism from all sides. Ms. Hochul and the White House have assailed his management of the crisis. Republican leaders, some of whom have sent buses of migrants to New York, argued that the mayor should not complain because he championed New York City as a sanctuary city. Left-leaning Democrats have called the mayor’s rhetoric toward migrants xenophobic.

Anne Williams-Isom, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, said at a news briefing on Wednesday that the right-to-shelter provision was a major reason migrants were choosing to come to the city.

“Before, the right to shelter and what’s going on in New York City was like our little secret,” she said. “Now the whole globe knows that if you go to New York City, we’re going to do what we always do. We have a big heart. We have compassion. We’re going to take care of people.”

The setting for the mayor’s comments — the Upper West Side, a wealthy neighborhood in Manhattan whose residents largely did not vote for him in the 2021 mayoral primary election — seemed deliberately chosen.

Mr. Adams said the neighborhood was home to some of the most highly educated people in the city and asked what they had done to help solve the migrant crisis.

“As you ask me a question about migrants, tell me what role you played,” he said. “How many of you organized to stop what they’re doing to us?”

Then he made one last dark warning before opening the floor to questions from the crowd: “The city we knew, we’re about to lose.”
 
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