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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 6, 2023, 5:31 pm
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Mayor Adams always on the job:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-considers-housing-illegal-immigrants-190148666.html
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> Democrat Mayor Eric Adams' office confirmed that the city is
looking into using schools, reportedly 20 to 30, for temporary
migrant shelters during the summer months.
>
> "As Mayor Adams has said repeatedly, we have more than 51,800
asylum seekers in our care and have reached capacity," a
spokesperson for City Hall told Fox News Digital Thursday.
"While this option is not ideal, none are, and we are in no
position to take anything off the table."
>
> New Dorp High School, Mark Twain Middle School for the Gifted
and Talented, and Russell Sage Middle School are reportedly
being considered as potential migrant shelters, a source told
the New York Post.
> ...
> After more than 81,200 asylum seekers have entered New York
City’s intake system since Spring 2022, Adams has housed
migrants in various locations, including taxpayer-funded hotel
rooms, a former NYPD training facility, and the Brooklyn Cruise
Terminal.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuYqJ6Yrwps
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 11, 2023, 9:27 pm
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Mayor Adams demonstrates authentic populism and American
nationalism:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-city-mayor-eric-adams-185318920.html
--- Quote ---
> New York City Mayor argued Tuesday that it is "anti-American"
not to allow the approximately 84,000 migrants who have come to
the Big Apple to legally work in the United States.
> ...
> "It's just unbelievable what's happening to the people of the
city of New York that are going through this. And nothing is
more anti-American than you can't have a job when you come to
America. There's nothing more anti-American. Every one of us in
this room, family members came from somewhere. And the guiding
light of this country is to be able to come here and work. We
have a population of 84,000 people that we're saying you cannot
work. That's anti-American."
> ...
> Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, have
called on President Biden for expedited work authorization for
asylum seekers.
>
> "I just want to say that on behalf of migrants, we ask
President Biden to give us the ability to work, to give us a
right to work so that we can contribute back to the City of New
York and others that have opened the door for us to be here,"
New York City Immigration Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro
said at a press conference in May. "So that we can have a
dignified life that we all deserve as human beings. So that we
can provide for our families and continue forward in our
journey."
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXsc10DPXvw
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: guest98
Date: July 13, 2023, 4:21 pm
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Refugees forced to sleep on the streets in Toronto
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> Refugees arriving in Toronto are finding themselves having to
sleep on the street after funding for a housing program ran out.
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HTML https://youtu.be/VIjIaJ8H9UI
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 15, 2023, 4:30 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/ll-die-hunger-anyway-boy-015813349.html
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> ‘We’ll die of hunger here anyway’: Boy’s tragic journey
exposes impossible choice faced by millions
> ...
> Abuzar was aboard a fishing trawler that capsized in the
Mediterranean last month, sinking with it hundreds of people
searching for a better life.
>
> The boat was carrying up to 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian
and Palestinian refugees and migrants. Only 104 people have been
rescued.
> ...
> The choice for Abuzar, like millions of others like him, was
to watch his family starve at home or risk death attempting to
reach Europe where there was a promise of work.
> ...
> At least 289 children are estimated to have died or
disappeared this year attempting to cross the central
Mediterranean Sea migration route from North Africa to Europe,
UNICEF said in a statement on Friday.
>
> According to UNICEF, this equates to nearly 11 children dying
or disappearing every week.
> ...
> More than 600 people drowned on June 14 in what would become
one of the deadliest migrant boat tragedies. Among the survivors
were just 12 Pakistanis, but Abuzar was not one of them.
> ...
> Greek authorities have faced criticism for how the disaster
was handled, and uncomfortable questions have been raised about
European countries’ attitudes toward migrants. Greek officials
denied claims that the boat had capsized after the coast guard
attempted to tow it to shore.
> ...
> Every year, tens of thousands of people fleeing war,
persecution, climate change and poverty risk treacherous routes
to Europe.
> ...
> Pakistan, a nation of about 220 million, is in the throes of
its worst economic crisis in decades. Work is scarce; inflation
is soaring; and essentials including food and fuel are
increasingly costly.
>
> The number of Pakistanis traversing dangerous routes to Europe
in search of a better future has increased since last year,
according to the Mixed Migration Center.
> ...
> “It’s easy to judge refugees and migrants and their family as
reckless,” Forin said. But “migration is sometimes a strategy
for a family to cope with a very difficult situation back home.”
> ...
> In Europe, Forin said, current policy discussions on migration
in the European Union typically center on “breaking the business
model of smugglers as if we are dealing with organized crime.”
>
> “Whereas in our view, we are dealing with a demand for
irregular journey that is mostly led by the lack of legal
pathways. We are hearing about further increasing border
protection, increasing detention at the border. This will
actually feed more demand for smuggling,” he said.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 17, 2023, 5:31 pm
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What America is supposed to be like:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/come-country-dream-woman-teaches-100000506.html
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> ‘They come to this country with a dream’: Woman teaches
English to migrants on a South Loop basketball court
>
> There hasn’t been a single day since May that Samantha
Oulavong is not thinking of the migrants who stay at the police
station in her neighborhood in the South Loop. The children, she
said, remind her of her younger self, when her parents made
their way from Laos seeking asylum in the Chicago area when she
was 5 years old.
>
> Of course, in more than one way, their story is not the same,
she said, “but our heart is.”
>
> “They come to this country with a dream,” she said.
>
> Oulavong has been visiting the 1st District police station
almost every day since May, when the first families began to
seek refuge at the station near her home. She drops off food and
clothes and, most recently, has begun to teach basic English to
the migrants and their children regardless of a language barrier
— she doesn’t really speak Spanish — in the bleachers of a
basketball court across from the South Loop station.
>
> “Most want to know how they can ask for a job,” she said.
“‘Busco trabajo,’ I tell them to say, meaning, ‘I’m looking for
a job.’”
>
> Oulavong is just one of the many Chicagoans who have stepped
up to provide more than just food and donations for the
thousands of asylum-seekers who have arrived to the city since
August of last year, filling a void as state and city official
grapple to create more temporary housing for the migrants.
>
> The volunteers have celebrated birthdays with migrants, taken
them to baseball games, given them haircuts, provided
professional therapy — and now are teaching them English.
>
> Right before 11 a.m. on a recent weekday, wearing a small
summer hat and a long maxi dress, Oulavong walks over to the
station to announce in broken Spanish that she is heading to the
bleachers to begin the one-hour class.
>
> In a white tote, she carries small notebooks and pencils to
share with those who decide to be her students for the day.
“¿Quieres aprender inglés?” she asks a young man who approached
her as she held a white dry erase board.
>
> Though she doesn’t know Spanish, she taught herself some words
and phrases that she thinks are essential for the migrants to
know as they navigate their days in the station. When Oulavong
and her students hit a language barrier, they communicate
through a translator application on her phone.
>
> The lessons can attract anywhere from three to 10 migrants,
depending on how many are staying in the station that day. The
students sit on the bleachers adjacent to the basketball court
at Margaret Hie Ding Lin Park, just as the sun shines the
brightest. There are mornings when classes take place alongside
the loud pinging sound of basketball games.
>
> “I wish they could be my students forever,” Oulavong said
softly with a light smile. When a group that had been at the
station for more than two weeks got moved, she cried and hugged
them goodbye.
>
> “It’s bittersweet, I hope it gets better for them,” she said.
>
> When they’re moved into shelters, she assures them that she
will be at the court teaching every morning at least during
summer break.
> ...
> And some of Oulavong’s students are learning — at least the
basics for now.
>
> There’s Karla Urbina, a mother from Nicaragua who lived at the
station for nearly a month. She was one of Oulavong’s first
students. Though she has been moved to a shelter in Rogers Park,
she makes the nearly hourlong train and bus commute to the South
Loop every so often to keep learning English with Oulavong.
>
> “Karla is fearless,” Oulavong said. “Sometimes she translates
for us,” she laughed.
>
> Urbina, a social worker by trade in her home country, has
become a part of the volunteer network that assists the families
arriving at the 1st District police station, along with Brayan
Lozano, an asylum-seeker from Colombia who also spent several
weeks at the station.
>
> Lozano, also a social worker and an organizer in his home
country, often encourages his fellow migrants to learn English.
>
> “That’s the next step if we really want to succeed here,” he
said.
>
> Both Urbina and Lozano have stayed diligent in their learning
process, often meeting with Oulavong or other volunteers one on
one. Though their English is very limited, they’re now able to
communicate their needs and the needs of those arriving,
Oulavong said.
>
> Even though the two have become an essential part of the
volunteer team assisting new arrivals in the South Loop, they
believe that their roles could be amplified if they were to
master the English language, by not only assisting volunteers,
but even helping city officials.
>
> “Imaginate que podriamos lograr,” said Urbina with a grin.
“Just imagine what we could accomplish”
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 22, 2023, 5:04 pm
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As I have explained before, every additional refugee arriving
reinforces the safety of all refugees already present (and
conversely, every refugee who self-deports makes it more
dangerous for all refugees remaining, equivalent to desertion):
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/asylum-seekers-giant-us-immigration-144414251.html
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> For asylum seekers, giant US immigration backlog can be a boon
>
> The massive backlog of cases in US immigration courts has made
it evermore attractive for many migrants to come to the United
States, knowing that they can work legally for years without
being deported as their cases inch through the system.
>
> The approximately 650 immigration judges carry a backlog of
more than 2.4 million cases, according to Transactional Records
Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an organization at Syracuse
University.
> ...
> Last year, 313,000 cases were terminated but the Department of
Homeland Security filed 700,000 new ones, "more than twice what
we could complete," he said.
>
> Asylum seekers, who account for 40 percent of the courts'
caseload, wait an average of four years to get their first court
hearing, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) think
tank. And even more years for the case to be adjudicated.
> ...
> "It is clear that the length of time it is now taking to get
through the immigration court process has become a significant
pull factor that is driving migration throughout the region,"
Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border and immigration
policy at the Department of Homeland Security, told the
colloquium, which was hosted by MPI.
> ...
> "We are... seeing the court system essentially become a proxy
and legal pathway for people to come to the United States," he
added.
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The only sensible response to which is the ethically correct
response: amnesty. The bigger the backlog we can build, the more
obvious it will become that amnesty is the only way to clear the
backlog once and for all.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 29, 2023, 5:48 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/welcome-center-former-school-sheltered-152033637.html
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> What is the Welcome Center? Former school has sheltered
thousands of asylum seekers
>
> Fifty-seven asylum seekers — men, women and children from
Guatemala, Brazil, India and Guinea — climbed off a bus at the
Welcome Center one recent morning. The former school in Phoenix
has expanded over the past four years into one of the busiest
and most sophisticated migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
>
> Since the once-vacant building reopened in 2019 as a migrant
shelter, more than 105,000 asylum seekers from 84 countries have
passed through the same glass doors students entered.
> ...
> The Welcome Center, however, has played a key role in turning
Arizona into a model for providing temporary shelter to asylum
seekers released by federal authorities in a safe and orderly
manner.
>
> Buses arrive several times a day, seven days a week, bringing
between 100 and 300 asylum seekers daily.
> ...
> “The Welcome Center has provided more capacity and
coordination for a safer process for migrants while helping to
reduce the burden on Arizona’s smaller border towns and
communities that don’t have the resources or services,” said
Luis Heredia, state director for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
> ...
> Before the center opened in July 2019, federal authorities
used to release busloads of asylum seekers at the Phoenix bus
depot day and night, leaving them to fend for themselves.
>
> Scenes of families sleeping on the floor with children, many
sick with colds and respiratory illnesses caught during their
long journeys, or wandering on neighboring streets begging for
food, became commonplace from 2014 to 2018.
>
> The releases created a political firestorm, drawing the ire of
local and state elected officials, while humanitarian groups
rushed in to deliver boxes of food, water, diapers and other
supplies, turning the bus depot into a scene that resembled a
refugee camp.
>
> The disorder and confusion at the bus station mostly ended
when a network of working-class Hispanic churches stepped
forward in 2018, opening their doors to feed and house asylum
seekers released by federal authorities.
>
> But that effort quickly proved unsustainable. Aiding asylum
seekers strained the resources of congregations. The
congregations also became fearful after armed members of
anti-immigrant groups began showing up, hurling accusations that
the churches were facilitating illegal immigration.
>
> Then the Welcome Center opened on July 27, 2019 — a
collaboration between the International Rescue Committee, which
provided resources, logistics and organizational skills, and
grassroots groups such as the Phoenix Restoration Project, which
provided the workforce.
>
> The center's lack of visibility is by design. The
International Rescue Committee has intentionally kept a low
profile to avoid attracting the same kind of unwanted attention
that plagued some local churches targeted by anti-immigrant
groups that showed up to harass and intimate asylum seekers and
volunteers.
>
> There are no signs that identify the center. The building is
hidden from view by a chain link fence with screening and
fortified with a surveillance system and heavy locking gates.
Buses enter through a rear gate, allowing asylum seekers to get
off without being seen from the street. Even so, at least once
someone has fired shots at the building, prompting staff to
contact police, who can be seen patrolling the area.
>
> "We have had some safety incidents," said Stanford Prescott,
the senior communications officer for The International Rescue
Committee, noting that no one was hurt. That is why "we are very
serious about our safety. It's because there are these real
threats out there."
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If you are truly serious, every refugee should be given a
firearm and relevant training. The threats (in bold) will not go
away on their own. They will only end when physically
exterminated. There is no way around this.
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> Beth Strano used to collect water and prepare sandwiches to
pass out to asylum seekers at the bus depot as a Phoenix
Restoration Project volunteer. She now co-runs the Welcome
Center. She is one of about 10 former volunteers hired by the
International Rescue Committee to staff the center.
>
> "Every single day and every single night, families ... were
being released on a 24-hour schedule" at the bus station, Strano
recalled. "The state of toddlers getting off the busses was
horrifying. You know, no shoes, just wearing a diaper and kids
hadn't eaten for days. It was very, very rough."
>
> But the community responded, Strano said.
>
> "We started to build systems that worked to help support
people. We started to build relationships as grassroots groups
with (the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) to coordinate
when they had larger releases," she said. "And it built the
foundation for us to come in and build something that could
support everybody."
>
> The center employs a staff of over 30 people. The bulk of the
center's funding comes from federal emergency funding
allocations to help communities provide aid to asylum seekers.
The rest comes from private donations, Strano said. The center
has received nearly $9.9 million in public and private funding
since opening. That includes more than $6.4 million through the
Emergency Food and Shelter Program and nearly $2 million through
the Shelter and Services Program, both administered by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency. There's also been almost
$800,000 in other public funding. The center rents the building,
which had been vacant for years, from the Phoenix Elementary
School District.
>
> By providing humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers, the
Welcome Center reduces costs that used to be incurred by other
local aid groups and medical facilities, Strano said. The
shelter also prevents asylum seekers from winding up on the
streets and adding to the state's population of unhoused people,
she said.
>
> "The cost savings alone from folks not ending up in the
emergency room and instead going through a medical clinic, not
ending up at the Greyhound station and ending up as long-term
homeless here, that's a huge savings to the entire community,"
Strano said.
> ...
> There are rooms stocked with racks of donated clothing and
boxes of shoes sorted by size. Asylum seekers can pick out items
to replace the soiled or worn clothing they often arrive
wearing. Asylum seekers are also given backpacks and personal
hygiene supplies to take with them as they continue their
journeys. Volunteers check paperwork, looking for errors and
ensuring asylum seekers know when to check in with immigration
authorities once they reach their final destinations.
>
> Hot meals prepared in the former school's kitchen are served
in a dining hall. The former school cafeteria also doubles as a
living space.
>
> On a recent morning, asylum seekers sat together at tables and
charged phones. Others waited at a booth where volunteers armed
with computers helped book airline tickets, typically paid for
by asylum seekers' friends or relatives already in the U.S.
>
> A television monitor looped a video explaining how to navigate
the security and boarding process at Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport. A free shuttle transports asylum seekers
there. Staff at the center coordinate with officials at the
airport, Strano said.
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Thank you for your work!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH9vLNdzsjg
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 4, 2023, 1:14 am
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Nothing but good work from Mayor Adams:
HTML https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/nyc-college-students-to-help-thousands-of-migrants-file-for-asylum-under-new-city-partnership/
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> Mayor Eric Adams is tapping New York’s college students to
assist thousands of migrants with their asylum claims, The Post
has learned.
>
> Adams’s office plans on announcing a partnership with NYU,
Columbia University School of Social Work and City University of
New York campuses including Hunter College’s School of Social
Work to help migrants navigate the complicated process, sources
familiar with the program said.
>
> “There is tremendous talent in the student bodies of both the
public and private colleges. There are students who are
multilingual and they’re used to taking exams and filling out
applications,” a source familiar with the plan said.
>
> “Helping migrants navigate a complex process of applying for
asylum is a no-brainer. Students can be a valuable resource.”
>
> Students are expected to get credit for performing the
clinical work on behalf of migrants, sources said.
>
> CUNY already operates a Citizenship Now! program — touted as
the largest university legal assistance program in the nation
providing free and confidential citizenship and immigration law
services to immigrants.
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 10, 2023, 4:04 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/governor-healey-asks-residents-house-101853601.html
--- Quote ---
> Governor Healey asks residents to house migrant families amid
growing shelter crisis
> ...
> The state’s shelters are reaching capacity and now the
governor is asking residents to help by opening their doors.
That was part of Governor
>
> ’s announcement--as she also is looking for help from the
federal government.
>
> The governor said anywhere between 10 to 30 migrant families a
day are coming into Massachusetts. There are 40 hotels across
the state helping to house them, but the governor is now
pleading for help from the federal government—as well as you.
>
> Governor Healey says close to 5,600 families are currently
housed in the state’s emergency shelter system. That number is
80% higher than one year ago. Massachusetts is the only state in
the country with a right-to-shelter law that guarantees homeless
families access to emergency shelters. She says Massachusetts
has been spending around $45 million a month to help assist
these families. The situation is so bad, the Healey
administration is now asking people to open their homes and
businesses to help people in need.
>
> “Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your
home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is
our most pressing need and become a sponsor family,” said Lt.
Governor Kim Driscoll.
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Anyone willing to do this should get a tax break. Anyone
unwilling to do this should get a tax multiplier.
About Healey:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey
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> On January 31, 2017, Healey announced that her office was
joining a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's Executive
Order 13769,[38][39] commonly known as a "Muslim ban."[40][41]
Healey condemned the order as "motivated by anti-Muslim
sentiment and Islamophobia, not by a desire to further national
security."[38] A federal court eventually struck the order down
on similar grounds.[42]
>
> On March 9, 2017, Healey announced that her office was joining
a lawsuit challenging Trump's Executive Order 13780.[43][44] She
said the new order, a revised version of the one that had been
struck down, "remains a discriminatory and unconstitutional
attempt to make good on [Trump's] campaign promise to implement
a Muslim ban."[43] The order has been blocked in various federal
courts on similar grounds.[44][45]
>
> On May 11, 2017, after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey,
Healey led efforts calling for a special counsel to investigate
Russia's meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
--- End Quote ---
HTML https://maurahealey.com/
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Re: Refugees Welcome
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 14, 2023, 8:12 pm
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The correct attitude:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hochul-force-ny-towns-migrants-192100857.html
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> Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov.
Kathy Hochul demanding the state force towns to accept migrants
from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more
aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker
crisis.
>
> Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level
orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the
Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless
and the Legal Aid Society.
>
> The groups said in the letter that Hochul should deploy
executive powers to “invalidate executive orders in counties
that have refused to accept new arrivals” or “alternatively,
have the State intervene in pending cases to overturn the
obstructive executive orders.”
>
> The letter also asked Hochul to personally pressure mayors and
county executives to accept migrants; to help coordinate
relocation efforts; and to identify more state-run spaces to
house people.
> ...
> “She’s allowed this complete chaos to fester,” he said, “where
you have dozens of counties and municipalities issuing executive
orders that are precluding New York City from sheltering people
— who are desperately in need of shelter — in their counties.”
>
> Giffen argued the governor would be on strong legal footing to
force counties to take asylum seekers, citing a public relief
and care clause in the state Constitution.
>
> “We need to make sure that people aren’t sleeping on the
streets,” he said.
> ...
> Hochul has said regions of the state have employed “bigoted
policies based on fear and intimidation.”
>
> But she has sometimes seemed reluctant to push upstate
communities on the issue, perhaps concerned about alienating
areas that could be pivotal in 2024 House races, as noted by
political observers.
> ...
> the letter highlighted steps Hochul has so far shied away
from, saying that while the groups appreciate her efforts, “much
more is needed.”
--- End Quote ---
Otherwise we will only get more of this:
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