A number of the migrants who Mayor Eric Adams says are overloading the town’s homeless shelters haven't any ties to the Massive Apple — however have been nonetheless directed right here by President Biden’s administration, The Publish has discovered.
Outdoors a metropolis Division of Homeless Providers consumption heart within the Bronx, Veronica Prada, 28, mentioned Wednesday that she, her husband and their 4 youngsters left their native Venezuela on April 26 and crossed the US-Mexico border into San Antonio, Texas, on July 11.
They have been greeted by Border Patrol brokers who took them and different migrants to a processing facility, the place immigration officers gave the household data on apply for asylum and an Aug. 23 appointment with an immigration lawyer within the Bronx, though Prada instructed The Publish she and her husband didn’t ask to go to New York.
A Catholic church in San Antonio gave them meals, clothes and different objects, and put them on a bus to a different Catholic church in Washington, DC, she mentioned.
There, the church put the household on one other bus to New York they usually have been dropped off Sunday in Higher Manhattan.
From there, the couple and their youngsters — ages 2 to eight — walked to the homeless consumption heart within the Bronx, the place they have been instructed there have been no beds accessible and as an alternative received despatched to a transient lodge in Brooklyn.
Since then, they’ve been returning to the middle day-after-day in hopes they will get beds there and be a part of pals with whom they traveled from Venezuela.
In the meantime, Prada mentioned, there’s no assure there might be a room accessible on the lodge every evening they return.
“I’m hesitant to go, however I’m hoping to get a room,” she mentioned Wednesday night, chatting with The Publish in Spanish.
“We’re going to make use of the instructions they offer us and go all the best way there, and see in the event that they’ll allow us to keep. The bulk which have gone have been turned again.”
One other migrant on the consumption heart, Jorge Parada, 35, mentioned he, his spouse and their 4 youngsters — ages 14 to twenty-eight — left Caracas, Venezuela, and crossed into San Antonio on July 2.
Parada mentioned pals who entered the US earlier went to New York Metropolis and he determined he needed to go there, too.
When requested why, he mentioned, “Adventuring.”
“It looks like a spot we’d wish to reside,” he mentioned.
“It reminds us of house. It’s a metropolis.”
Parada mentioned his friends instructed him about staying on the consumption heart, so after his household met with immigration officers in San Antonio, he purchased tickets to experience a Greyhound bus to the town.
As soon as they arrived, they headed straight for the consumption heart, the place they got housing on the Wales Household Residence within the Bronx.
Parada mentioned he hoped to qualify for 2 years of “assisted dwelling” however was instructed Tuesday “that we didn't qualify.”
“They instructed us to come back again and current ourselves once more and ask for one more appointment to see if we qualify sooner or later,” he mentioned.
On Tuesday, Adams mentioned greater than 2,800 asylum-seeking migrants entered the town’s shelter system in current weeks and he known as on Biden to ship “further assets instantly” to assist the town “as we serve each a quickly rising shelter inhabitants and new shoppers who're in search of asylum.”
White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned Tuesday that federal officers “have been in contact” with the mayor’s workplace however declined to remark additional.
Jean-Pierre additionally directed reporters to contact the Federal Emergency Administration Company, which she mentioned was the “lead company,” nevertheless it didn’t return an inquiry Wednesday.
Extra reporting by Steven Nelson
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