Global Courant 2023-05-06 18:19:01
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday a plan to provide temporary housing in the state for asylum seekers already in the city’s care.
The program for as many as 300 single men seeking asylum will last up to four months.
It is launching with two hotels in Orange Lake and Orangeburg, with the potential to expand.
The asylum seekers will receive the same city-funded services available at Humanitarian Emergency Relief and Response Centers.
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Hotel staff will connect residents with local organizations and faith groups.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends the Literacy Partners 2023 Gala at Cipriani South Street on May 1, 2023 in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for literacy partners)
Now the city is handing out asylum seekers already living in shelters and humanitarian aid centers before the hotels open in the coming weeks. Transfers to the cities are voluntary.
The mayor’s office said the hotels will help free up additional space in New York City for the hundreds of asylum seekers who continue to arrive each day in the five boroughs, noting that Title 42 will be lifted and an additional one is expected. greater influx of arrivals after May 11.
As of last spring, more than 60,800 asylum seekers have passed through New York City and there are currently more than 37,500 asylum seekers in the city.
A bus carrying asylum seekers arrives at Port Authority in New York City on May 3, 2023. (Michael M.Santiago/Getty Images)
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In addition, since the beginning of the humanitarian crisis, the city has opened 122 hotels as emergency shelters and eight as humanitarian relief centers.
Adams called again in a statement for state and federal assistance, including financial aid, a national decompression strategy, expedited work permits and genuine immigration reform.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks with relatives of fallen NYPD officers while attending the NYPD Memorial Day Ceremony, where new names were added to the Memorial Wall in the headquarters lobby. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
“Despite calls to the federal government for a national decompression strategy since last year, and for a statewide decompression strategy, New York City has not received the necessary support to manage this crisis. With a leadership vacuum, we are now forced to execute our own decompression strategy,” Adams said in a statement.
He said the program would help people build a stable life in New York.
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“New York City continues to ramp up and address this crisis, and this new program is an extension of our compassionate response, but these actions don’t mean we still don’t need urgent action, including a national decompression strategy, financial resources, expedited work permit, and real immigration reform from Congress,” Adams added.
The mayor has already drawn criticism for the move, with Republican officials saying the region lacks necessary services for the asylum seekers and advocates for the migrants calling it a “temporary solution.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Julia Musto is a reporter for Fox News and Fox Business Digital.
