A curfew for immigrants from shelters in New York City is imminent. Everything seems to indicate that the measure will apply from Tuesday, January 16, 2024.

Those staying in these centers must register every evening at 11 a.m. and stay in those places until 6 a.m. the morning of the next day, they explain on Telemundo 47.

This measure, La Nación reports, is similar to that existing in homeless shelters, “where a kind of curfew is imposed and no one can enter or leave the place at night and in the early morning hours.”

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Why a curfew for immigrants

The measure, the Telemundo network adds, “is the first step the New York Mayor’s office is taking in providing answers to the complaints of neighbors who claim they have been attacked by asylum seekers moving from house to house go and ask for money, clothes and things. food.”

Residents of neighboring communities reported asylum seekers begging and committing thefts.

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Where are the immigrant reception centers?

According to Telemundo 47, the four shelters are located in three provinces.

A curfew will be enforced at New York City Department of Emergency Management (NYCEM) locations.

These centers – which are currently home to around 1,900 migrants, according to RT – are:

They do not rule out the opening of other centers of this type.

Doubts and exceptions

According to the media, there are doubts among immigrants, especially among those who work at night.

There are exceptions to the curfew, La Nación explains. This excludes those who need to travel at different times for legal, work, study and health reasons, as is the case for those who have medical or legal appointments and need to keep them.

In this direction, RT indicates that “asylum seekers can receive a pass to arrive late if they work or study, for travel, legal appointments or medical needs.”

Those who do not comply with these new rules, “particularly those who violate them three times within a 30-day period, may be expelled from the centers,” the southern media added.

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New York Mayor Eric Adams has been reporting for months that the city is overwhelmed by the presence of immigrants. In October 2023, he noted: “Over the past year, approximately 117,000 migrants have arrived in New York, making the situation very difficult.”

And in early 2024, Adams said, according to EFE, that the city does not have enough space to accommodate the thousands of immigrants who arrived, in many cases sent by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

(JO)