The federal government has finally agreed to turn over a Brooklyn airfield to be used as a migrant shelter and bolsting the city’s bed count by a couple thousand, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday. The governor of New York received the news, and immediately shared word with reporters, during an afternoon press conference. “Good news: we are in receipt of…
The federal government has finally agreed to turn over a Brooklyn airfield to be used as a migrant shelter and bolsting the city's bed count by a couple thousand, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday.
The governor of New York received the news, and immediately shared word with reporters, during an afternoon press conference.The move to shelter migrants on the federal airfield comes after month of Hochul working her White House contacts. She never let on that the Biden administration had previously nixed the idea."This is a big step because the answer one month ago was 'no,'" Hochul said.
The space and additional 2,500 beds will undoubtedly be needed. Eight hundred of the 1,000 Creedmoor facility in Queens are now full, and 200 people have already moved into tents on Randall's Island. Hochul also announced the state will spend another $20 million to provide case work to migrants. She says the goal is top help asylum seekers in the large relief centers who might want to leave or go back home and file their asylum claims so they can get on a path to work.Asylum seekers are being sent to New York City with hopes of a new, better life — but finding obstacle after obstacle instead.
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