The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, asked the federal authorities this Sunday for help in the face of what he hopes will be a massive arrival of asylum seekers to the city as a result of the end of a policy that has allowed the United States to expel the majority of people who cross the southern border of the country.
According to Adams, the Big Apple is preparing to receive a high number of buses from the border “starting today” and for more than a thousand more than normal asylum seekers to arrive in the city every week, reported Agencia EFE.
This year tens of thousands of people have ended up in this situation in New York, mostly Venezuelans and many of them sent on chartered buses from Texas by the government of Republican Greg Abbott, who has opted for this measure to distribute the burden and criticize the immigration policies of the Joe Biden Administration.
”We have already received more than 31,000 asylum seekers in our city and we currently have 60 emergency shelters open, four humanitarian support centers and two welcome centers. We have put thousands of children in schools and have spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to clothe, feed, house and support this population in great need,” Adams said in a statement.
According to the mayor, New York now needs “urgent help” from state and federal authorities, whom he accused of having “largely ignored” the requests for support made so far. “Our foster system is full and we are almost without money, personnel and space”, insisted the Democratic politician, who asked Washington for possible plans to transfer asylum seekers to other cities, to allow them to work or to “send aid to the cities that have borne the brunt of this crisis”. .
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The United States is preparing for the end of Title 42, a health regulation established by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), and maintained by the current Government, which has so far allowed the expulsion of the majority of people who cross the southern border .
The Joe Biden government must abide by an order from a federal judge in Washington, DC, who ordered the lifting of the regulations in mid-November, which he described as “arbitrary and capricious.”
The end of this rule, which has barred most asylum claims at the border, is expected to lead to an increase in the number of people arriving in the southern US hoping to seek refuge in the country.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has already outlined the strategy it will follow to deal with a greater arrival of migrants, but assured that the US system “is not designed” to deal with the current migratory flow. EFE.
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