With the number of asylum seekers coming to New York City nearing 50,000, Mayor Eric Adams has laid out a new blueprint for coping with a problem that has created a humanitarian crisis. MKramerTV reports.
Adams intends to: Launch a job training program with SUNY Sullivantens of thousands of asylum seekersBut one thing that's not included in his"next phase" is a way to get the federal government to reimburse the city. The mayor's budget director says he's not hopeful the feds will come through.
Grim words from Adams, who in just a few months is going to have to cobble together a new budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 that will apparently force the city to swallow a far bigger share of the costs of housing, schooling and resettling the tens of thousands of asylum seekers here now, or expected to arrive here in the future. "We can not do this alone, and we have been doing it alone thus far, and that must stop," Adams said.
"All I want to ask is for the federal government to speed up the asylum process so that we can finally settle here," he said. Moving arrival operations from the Port Authority Bus Terminal to a new 24/7 center that has yet to be determined
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