The migrant population in the shelters of New York has decreased to approximately 60,000 personas, thanks to the policy that limits the stay to 30 days for singles and 60 days for familiesreported Mayor Eric Adams.
“We are no longer in an emergency situation,” said Adams, who declared an emergency in October 2022, calling the flow of thousands of migrants and the demand on the city to provide housing, food, schools and other aid “unsustainable.”
“Thanks to programs like that (limit stay) and support services, “We have been able to reduce the migrant population from 220,000 (at its peak) to around 60,000.”said Adams, who has criticized the administration of the outgoing Democratic president, Joe Bidenfor not granting the money that the city demanded to face the humanitarian and economic crisis that caused the arrival of thousands of people.
With the incoming administration of the president-elect, Donald Trumpassures that his role as mayor means that we will have to “work with her.”
“What I have made clear is that I have communicated with the incoming president. My job is not to fight the new administration, but to work with it. And every conversation I have had with him has revolved around how to comply with New York”he reiterated during an interview with the platform The Reset Talk Show.
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Two days after the November 5 election, Adams indicated that he had called Trump “to tell him that “There are many problems here in the city that we want to address together with the administration”but did not specify what problems or if they talked about the mass deportations that the now president-elect promised during his election campaign.
“We paid $6.4 billion in taxpayer dollars to address the migrant and asylum seeker crisis. The federal government has only given us about $200 million. That’s really unfortunate and worrying for me and many taxpayers in the city,” he said, reiterating the criticism today.
Adams added that any conversations he has with the incoming president “It’s about how we can help New Yorkers” and how he can work with his administration to make sure “the city can continue to move forward.”
“Unfortunately, I made 10 trips to Washington under the current administration asking for help, and we didn’t get it. Now we have a new administration and I’m going to continue to ask them to help us with infrastructure problems, how we get some of the money back, how we secure our borders and We developed a real strategy to deal with those who enter the country, so that they can pursue the American dream and are not a burden on cities like New York, Chicago and Denver,” he said.
“I believe in the city and whoever holds the office (presidency), I will show them the level of respect that comes with it and I won’t sit in the corner pouting for four years doing nothing. for our city,” he said.
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