On February 1, migrants camped outside a hotel in Manhattan. Leonardo Munoz (Getty Images)
The mayor of New York, Democrat Eric Adams, is embarking this Wednesday on a four-day trip through Latin America, with a first stop in Mexico, to learn more about the main routes followed by migrants arriving in the United States, according to his office arrive. Since April 2022, 122,000 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple, mostly Latin Americans (led by Venezuelans) and Central Americans. The influx has put such a strain on the capacity of the city’s asylum system that the administration this Tuesday sought to repeal a rule in place in the city and state that requires granting asylum to anyone who requests it, including men traveling alone. In recent decades, this policy was mandatory until mass arrivals significantly overwhelmed the city’s reception and asylum capacity.
Adams’ tour will continue in Quito and Bogotá and end with a visit to the Darién Pass. The City Council plans to return to New York this Sunday.
After repeatedly asking the federal government for help in dealing with the economic costs of the crisis, the government led by Adams has faced increasing criticism from many of its fellow Democrats. The comments of his top adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who this weekend literally said that President Joe Biden must “close the border” to stop the flow of arrivals, are being targeted by numerous activists and NGOs from politicians on the same side as Adams, who they consider to be more typical of the ultra-factions of the Republican Party.
“We need the federal government, the members of Congress, the Senate and the president [Biden] Do your job: close the borders,” Lewis-Martin said in a television interview. “And until they close the borders, they must develop a total decompression strategy that will allow them to welcome and disperse all of our immigrants throughout the 50 states of the country.”
The local debate over immigration policy has become particularly bitter after the Adams administration made a second legal attempt late Tuesday to override traditional asylum law, which would mean unaccompanied migrants – or any unaccompanied American home to which The standard is also sufficient – a place will automatically be refused. The usual right to asylum has already been curtailed in practice in recent weeks: single men who were entitled to two months of accommodation until July now only have one month of protection and then have to apply for new accommodation in the extensive network of asylum hotels and Camps for migrants were set up, including the gymnasiums of numerous public schools. The mayor’s legal battle has been going on for months.
Repeal of the “Callahan Doctrine”
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Defender of the right to asylum that has turned New York into a sanctuary state. They reiterate that the mayor’s legislative initiative means the end of the animal shelter as it was previously known. If a Manhattan state Supreme Court judge approves it, it would be the first major change to a practice that has existed since 1981, when the city agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the Legal Aid Society, a human rights group that offers protections to everyone Adults, whether foreign or American, who applied for it. Also known as the Callahan Consent Decree or the Callahan Doctrine, this rule requires the city to provide protection to every single man who needs it (the mayor’s office has approved the asylum of families with minors who receive immediate protection and children, not questioned). school lessons from one day to the next).
According to the mayor’s office, the immigration crisis has cost the city more than $2 billion since the spring of 2022, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott chartered the first migrant bus to New York on the blue (democratic) states. Despite the extraordinary budget items approved by the state in addition to those of the federal government, the Adams administration insists that there is no money to cover all the expenses arising from maintaining this fluid population in the city. In the extension decided on Saturday in extremis to avoid the closure of the administration, no item is planned to finance the management of the migration crisis.
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