New York plans to house migrants in 20 school gyms amid parent protests

The city of NY has selected twenty public school gymnasiums as possible shelters for migrants in the face of the avalanche arriving at the Big Applebut this decision is already being met with protests from parents at the very entrance of some of the chosen schools.

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“The gymnasiums we are studying are separate from the school buildings. They are independent”explained the mayor, Eric Adams. on the morning of this Tuesday to Fox 5.

“It is one of the last places that we would like to contemplate and no one feels comfortable taking this drastic step.”he pointed.

The arrival of 65,000 immigrants to NY since last August it has strained the public services of the city, which tries to provide accommodation, school, food and minimal medical services to the new arrivals.

The fitting out of gyms as shelters has already begun yesterday, and today parents protested in two of the affected schools, one in willamsburg and another in sunsent parkboth in the county of Brooklynwhere the efforts of the municipality seem to be directed after having mainly used the option of “ad hoc” hotels in Manhattan.

“It’s not that we are against immigration, it’s just that this was not planned correctlysaid the mother Aramis Rose to CBS, referring to the fact that it was a very non-transparent decision and the Mayor’s Office only came out to give partial explanations once the press uncovered this new use of school facilities.

Another mother identified as Destiny Martin He even said that he took his 11-year-old son out of school 188 as soon as he learned that the immigrants were sleeping in the adjacent gymnasium. “We don’t know anything about their previous history, only that they are immigrants, and that is very sad”was justified in statements to the portal www.gothamist.com.

The opening of schools is the latest measure after the city has opened 140 emergency shelters, many of them dedicated hotels, the last of which was once luxurious. Roosevelt Hotel in the very center of Manhattan.

In the same logic of the emergency situation created by the migratory wave, the mayor last night signed an executive order to suspend the rules that allow a place to be defined as a potential shelter for the homeless, eliminating, for example, the entire process of “hearings” to raise objections from the neighbors, who sometimes delay the definition of a new hostel.

The city of NY It is the only one in the United States that by law has the obligation to give a roof to anyone who does not have one, and it is the argument that some Republican leaders -such as the governors of Texas, Greg Abbottor of Florida, Ron DeSantis– are being used to promote in one way or another the transfer of emigrants to the Big Apple.

Source: Elcomercio

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