Several major U.S. cities have struggled with an influx of many thousands of asylum seekers who have filled up homeless shelters after entering the U.S.
New York City’s shelter system has been especially overwhelmed, but Mayor Eric Adams has sought to reassure parents and community groups that the city’s nearly 1,900 schools — which have a long track record of welcoming immigrants with limited English skills — are well prepared to welcome migrant children into classrooms.
For the past two months, his family has been living in a room at Manhattan’s historic Roosevelt Hotel, which after years of being closed was converted into a city-run shelter this year for newly arrived migrants hoping to find work and a better life for their children. It’s been a hard few months for the family after leaving relatives behind in their small Ecuadorian city about 100 miles south of the country’s largest city, Guayaquil. In recent months, Ecuador has struggled with growing violence and political instability.
Families with children now account for about half of arrests of people crossing the border illegally from Mexico, with more than 91,000 arrests in August, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss numbers and spoke on condition of anonymity. Advocacy groups are closely watching how the city’s schools respond to the migrant influx, but sympathize with city officials who continue to plead for more money from Albany and the White House.
There were isolated problems on opening day, Quiroga said, most having to do with enrollment paperwork. There were some reports of long lines at some campuses, but that is often part of the normal chaos during the first day of school, she said.“The U.S. American education system and the New York City educational system are incredibly complicated and very different from other countries,” Quiroga said.
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