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David Alexander Paterson, former governor of New York between 2008 and 2010, praised the effort made by the current mayor Eric Adams to try to offer support to the enormous number of undocumented immigrants who have not stopped arriving in the “Big Apple” since last year. .
“Washington is pressuring these mayors not to turn their backs on immigrants, but Washington isn’t giving them any help, so I admire Mayor Adams, you know, letting them know that he’s keeping score here,” the 68-year-old said.
According to information released by the New York authorities, the immigration crisis translates into about 26,000 immigrants being given shelter and food, which could cost the city between $1.5 and $2 billion dollars.
“The mayor presented his budget, which would be $103 billion, and talked about all the help we provide to migrants and pleaded with Washington that we need more money,” he said on WABC Radio’s “The Cats Roundtable.” , the first African-American governor of New York, who is also the first blind state president in the country’s history.
The trend indicates that, if more immigrants from Texas continue to arrive in the Iron City, by the end of this year the concentration will reach 100,000. That is to say, four times more than those who already remain in shelters and hotels contracted by the authorities to provide them with shelter and food.
“I think the issue involves doing a national government decompression strategy to make sure that we can make sure that these asylum seekers are spread out across the country,” Eric Adams said.
New York City Councilmember Julie Won, who chairs the Contracts Committee, recently disclosed that several of the hotels are being paid less than $4 for the people they house to receive three food rations up to date, which also speaks of the solidarity of some businessmen with the government to provide them with spaces at low cost, where the thousands of immigrants whose dream is to achieve an amnesty that allows them to stay in the country legally can stay.
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