The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella coverage and advocacy organisation for greater than 200 teams in New York State, spearheaded a “youngsters’s march and rally” at Metropolis Corridor Park in decrease Manhattan, urging New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams to finish the 60-day rule for Caribbean and different asylum seekers to stay in metropolis shelters.
Most asylum seekers arriving in New York from the southern border of the US are nationals from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.
On Friday, NYIC stated the United Federation of Academics, elected officers, training allies, asylum-seeking households and immigrant New Yorkers joined NYIC on the rally earlier this week.
Marchers referred to as on the mayor to eradicate the shelter notices for households, and, as an alternative, prioritise the protection and well-being of asylum-seeking youngsters and their households dwelling within the metropolis’s shelter system.
Liza Schwartzwald, NYIC’s director of financial justice and household empowerment, advised the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) that the town is hoping to maneuver households who obtained the 60-day discover in early January.
“The town’s proper to shelter has supplied stability and security for susceptible New Yorkers of their journey in direction of self-sufficiency,” she stated. “Mayor Adams’ steady assaults on the suitable to shelter will drive households and youngsters out of shelters, destabilising them, exposing them to hazard, and have long-lasting results.”
“In consequence, it can disrupt youngsters’s training as their households battle to navigate the town’s complicated system. Prioritising everlasting housing will present susceptible households the chance to thrive, which is essential for youngsters’s psychological and bodily well being,” Schwartzwald stated.
“As an alternative, Adams continues to implement his inhumane insurance policies, going towards cost-effective options, and leaving households and youngsters to choose up the items. No youngster’s training needs to be in danger as a consequence of their dwelling circumstances. We urge the Adams administration to recognise the significance of everlasting housing for susceptible New Yorkers and eradicate all bureaucratic measures that forestall them from dwelling with dignity.”
Council member Rita Joseph, chair of the Metropolis Council’s Committee on Schooling, famous that New York Metropolis is famend as “the house of immigrants”, stating that the town “should proceed to steer on that promise”.
New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander stated that enacting and implementing the 60-day rule is “a monumental failure by the administration to handle shelter for asylum seekers”.
Former New York Metropolis Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn stated that kicking households out of shelters each two months is “some of the harmful and damaging insurance policies the town may ever implement to handle the migrant and homelessness crises”.
And in line with Ruth Messinger, international ambassador, American Jewish World Service in New York, disrupting each classroom and damaging the training neighborhood being constructed with and for every immigrant scholar and his/her household is “extremely self-defeating”.
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