New York cannot cope with the arrival of migrants sent by other states

Thousands of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City from states bordering Mexico on buses that authorities put them on; Many of them, according to the Homeless Coalition, already come with information on the shelters they should go to to find housing and opportunities. The problem is that they are saturated.

It is a tactic that are conducting republican statessuch as Texas and Arizona, in response to the immigration policies of President Joe Biden, sending migrants – mostly Latin Americans – to more receptive areas and, of course, Democrats, as is the case in New York or the District of Columbiawhere the country’s capital, Washington DC, is located.

But their hopes in the Big Apple come up against shelters without beds, without enough staff who speak Spanish and overcrowded by 12% more than last March.

“We know that they are entering from other cities or from the same border sometimes,” he told the voice of america Taysha 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 have already registered in the New York shelter system and at least four families have reportedly waited in long lines in the middle of a heat wave, without enough food and unable to be located as quickly as required by law. , denounced the coalition.

New York Mayor Eric Adams himself criticized the governments of Texas and Arizona for getting rid of immigrants and has asked for urgent help to the federal government.

Adams said the city’s homeless shelters don’t have enough resources to house as many migrants and need additional money from Washington to provide housing for new arrivals.

He also criticized Texas and Arizona: “These states are sending people to New York without any kind of communication or coordination.” However, he promised to carry out the task “as New Yorkers” and promised to receive and help the migrants.

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

Deborah, a Hispanic who lives in a women’s shelter, told the VOA in Spanglish the aid offered.

“When you go to the shelters [albergues]you can do housing [solicitar opciones de vivienda] section 8, HRA, City Pheps. They give you different depending on what you want, a studio or a room, how many people, “she detailed.

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