A thousand immigrants will be welcomed in religious centers in New York

The city of NY today announced a partnership with religious groups to launch an immigrant program where 50 “houses of prayer” will house a total of 1,000 single men at night in the five boroughs of the city, the mayor said today Eric Adams.

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It will be a two-year initiative with the group New York Disaster Interfaith Services (Interfaith Disaster Services) in which each religion center It will shelter 19 men every night and during the day they will continue with their normal activities.

During the night, the immigrants will receive various services from these religious centers -mainly Protestant, although some Muslims have been added- that include food, showers, and social areas, among others.

Mayor Eric Adamswho presented the agreement at a press conference, explained that to serve this population during the day, the city will open five centers with various services, including meals and snacks, showers, social areas, among others.

Adams noted that the announcement follows several months of conversations with religious leaders about how to use their spaces to help immigrants, who will add to the more than 161 emergency centers that the city has had to open to give them shelter.

According to the Democrat, this agreement will help relieve pressure on the city’s shelter system, as well as integrate newcomers into local communities and connect them with other groups.

recalled that more than 70,000 immigrants they have arrived in the city since last year, creating a humanitarian and fiscal crisis.

The city offers shelter to more than 46,000 immigrants in public shelters and hotels he has rented in the metropolitan area and upstate.

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The aid also includes food, medical and legal services and education for childrenwhich is assuming an expense that until the past may 31 They already totaled 1.2 billion dollars, double what was planned for that date, according to Adams.

Spending is expected to exceed $4 billion by the end of June 2024.

“Despite the staggering costs, the federal government has allocated less than $40 million in funds”recalled Adams when once again criticizing the President’s Administration Joe Biden for not supporting NY in the migratory crisis, a problem that, he also recalled, is national.

He also insisted that newcomers want to work, so he asked the White House to speed up the granting of work permits for immigrants.

“We are doing our job in the city and we need this national problem be addressed by national leaders. We want a realistic plan that starts with a solid decompression strategy on our southern border.”maintained and reiterated that this situation is “untenable” For the city..

Because these venues will house smaller groups, Adams he hopes it can expand to places of worship.

The priest Gil Monroseexecutive director of the Mayor’s Office of Community and Religious Associations, indicated for his part that immigrants who are arriving in the city “They are fleeing violence, oppression, poverty, and like all of us, they want to live and support their families in peace.”

A religion center already operates in the Muslim Community Center in the county of Brooklyn.

The city is awaiting a decision from the court it went to to ask it to stop no effect temporarily a measure from 40 years ago that obliges him to provide shelter to whoever requests it.

Source: Elcomercio

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