NEW YORK, September 22 (CNNBreakingNews.net) — New York City will open two emergency centers for migrants arriving on buses leaving from the Republican Governor of Texas were sent in a political dispute over border security, Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday.
The centers will provide shelter, food and medical care while working to attract migrants with family and friends inside connect and outside of New York City, according to the mayor’s office.
The emergency relief centers are part of the efforts of democratic mayors to deal with thousands of migrants from whom buses are fetched the Republican-led border states of Texas and Arizona. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican seeking reelection in November, has brought more than 11,000 migrants to Washington, DC, New York City, and Chicago since April.
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Governors who oppose Democratic US President Joe Biden’s more lenient border policy say they want to change the burden of democratic areas and focused on the issue in the run-up to the midterm elections in November.
“While other heads of state and government abdicate their moral duty to support incoming asylum seekers, New York City refuses to do so,” Adams said in a statement.
New York is bound by a decades-old consent decree in a class action lawsuit to provide shelter to homeless people.
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A center for single adults will open in the Bronx in the coming weeks, the mayor’s office said with the second location will completed. More could follow if necessary.
The centers for single adults will be air-conditioned tents with rows of cribs similar to those used according to natural Will disasters, said the mayor’s office.
The Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless stated in a joint statement that they were “deeply concerned” Families with children could in Meeting facilities are housed, but were willing to work with the city.