Gov. Kathy Hochul met at the White House with Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for more than two hours.
Hochul said in an interview on NY1 that she secured a commitment from DHS to send staffers to Manhattan in the coming weeks to help process asylum seekers. She spoke positively of the meeting.
"This is a federal problem, and I need more people to be able to work," she said. "I need more federal intervention. I need them to surge up help, and after today’s meeting, I feel more confident that we’ll get to a place where this starts to decline. But we’re not anywhere near there yet."FOX 5 NY's Linda Schmidt looks at the battle over the city's right-to-shelter mandate.
According to city officials, nearly 3,000 migrants arrived in New York City between Aug. 21 and Aug. 27. Over 59,000 migrants remain in the city’s care as of Sunday. , according to NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks.The upcoming school year is the latest hurdle the city is navigating in this migrant crisis.
Currently, there are over 3,400 teachers in the city’s public school system certified to teach English as a new language, and at least 1,700 other teachers are fluent in Spanish, city officials said.that I have read and agree
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