Pregnant immigrants will be exempt from eviction from New York shelters

The women immigrants who live in shelters NY and who are in their third trimester of pregnancy will not have to abide by the 60-day deadline imposed by the city to leave the shelter, and they will be able to stay there until their child is six months old.

“If the sixty-day notice period ends when a pregnant person is in the third trimester (of pregnancy), they will receive reasonable accommodation to extend their stay during the first six months of their child’s life,” one of the Mayor’s spokespersons Kayla Mamelak explained to EFE via email.

This measure also applies to women with newborn children, who to avoid eviction (temporarily) must present a medical certificate, according to local media.

The Administration of Mayor Eric Adams sent the first eviction letters in November, and on January 9, several migrant families were forced to leave the hotel where they lived in the middle of a winter storm that has brought with it temperatures of up to eight degrees below zero.

According to Mamelak, the objective of the sixty-day policy is “help families with children take the next step on their path to permanency and self-sufficiency.”

“The health and safety of the immigrants in our care are always a priority,” he claimed.

Since the summer of 2022, New York has been experiencing an unprecedented immigration crisis, driven by the sending of buses full of migrants by southern states, especially Texas, and recently aggravated by the end of the Title 42 border policy, which He blocked their passage for health reasons.

This wave of immigration has brought 171,000 people to New York; Of them, 68,000 continue to be protected by the Mayor’s Office, which provides them with accommodation, food and school for their children.