Gov. Kathy Hochul directly asked President Biden for more federal resources to deal with the asylum-seekers crisis in New York.
Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses New Yorkers on asylum-seeker crisis from Red Room at the state Capitol in Albany Aug. 24
Hochul confirmed that the state has a serious labor shortage in various industries. She said that the state Department of Labor can help connect asylum-seekers to gain lawful employment quickly, but they need expedited work visas to do so. She demanded that Biden allow eligible individuals permits to work legally asap. Most local immigration activists in the city and Mayor Eric Adams have been screaming the same demand since the crisis began.
The groups advocated for countries that meet the TPS statutory requirements, such as Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Nepal, Sudan, South Sudan, and Cameroon, as well as Guatemala, Mauritania, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo , Senegal, Haiti, and Nigeria. “The city would provide shelter to anyone who seeks it. This is an agreement that does not apply to the state’s other 57 counties, which is one of the reasons we cannot and will not force other parts of our state to shelter migrants,” said Hochul. “Nor will we ask these migrants to move to other parts of the state against their will.”
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