City contractors handed out food and drink to the 150
or so migrants lined up around the Roosevelt Hotel over
the weekend.
The city essentially ran out of room in the line
stretched around all four corners of the cities intake center.
Cooling buses were needed during the heat wave in recent
days.
We found many of those busted up from the southern
border include asylum seekers from North and West Africa.
We met Alysanne from Algeria.
He praised President Biden and has hopes he will soon
be allowed to work as a mechanic as he used
to back home before fleeing.
Let them work, let them work.
But as local elected leaders have been pointing out for
some time,
all migrants are prohibited from working until many months after
their complicated paperwork is completed.
We are standing together as one New York with one
clear message.
President Biden, New York City needs your help,
Queens Assembly member Jennifer Rajkumar rallied.
With other elected officials, unions and immigrant activists outside City
Hall Monday,
she crafted a letter Co signed by 54 lawmakers,
most of them Democrats, criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of
the crisis,
which by this time next year is estimated to cost
the city more than 4 billion.
They're demanding not just expedited working papers,
but funding the declaration of a state of emergency and
the national shelter decompression strategy.
We've had a completely absent federal government and presidency when
it comes to the asylum seekers.
New York City has already begun telling single adult asylum
seekers they can no longer care for them to make
room for families.
Hundreds of more migrants arrived Monday morning and up to
4000 are expected by the end of the week,
according to the Assemblywoman via the Mayor's office.
Mayor Adams says he visited the Roosevelt over the weekend
and saw for himself the toll this is taking.
We need help and it's it's not going to get
any better from from this moment on,
it's downhill.