NEW YORK – New York City asked for federal help this week to address and deal with the humanitarian crisis of hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants arriving daily. Mayor Eric Adams met with US Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and New York congressmen in Washington to discuss that aid.
Part of these crises has led migrants to start sleeping on the streets due to lack of housing or shelters. At the Roosevelt Hotel, which is used as a shelter for families with children and as an arrival center to assign migrants places to stay, it is one of the places where adults are waiting where to go.
These applicants waiting at the Roosevelt Hotel seek to be part of the 56,200 asylum seekers who are under the care of New York City, which has 192 shelters and 13 humanitarian aid centers that, due to the crisis, cannot cope.
So far in 2023, the city has spent more than $1.5 billion caring for migrants and they expect that by the end of 2025 they will have spent $4.3 billion.
