“Asylum seekers will also receive workforce training through The Center for Discovery in health care, human services, hospitality, culinary, and agricultural sectors,” it added. The city, “in partnership with The Center for Discovery and SUNY Sullivan, will offer asylum seekers the opportunity to relocate to Sullivan County, attend SUNY Sullivan Community College, live in college residence halls and earn a post-secondary credential or degree,” it said, Mayor Eric Adams says he’s in talks to relocate migrants to other “cities within the state and across the country.” Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock Migrants would also be taught to avoid getting scammed by shady employers who violate labor laws by paying less than the minimum wage and stealing tips.Īnd despite the mayor’s stated desire to keep migrants’ potential destinations outside the city under wraps, the report outlined a “workforce training pilot” program in upstate Sullivan County. The 25-page pamphlet detailed plans to provide migrants with English-language classes and federal workplace safety instruction, as well as training for jobs in healthcare, food service and other “in-demand industries.” The Office of Asylum Seeker Operations will move the city’s temporary migrant-processing center out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.Īt one point during his speech, the mayor held up a glossy, magazine-style report titled “The Road Forward: A Blueprint to Address New York City’s Response to the Asylum Seeker Crisis.” $4.6 million a day is more than the Department of Sanitation spends,” he said. “The quicker we can process people out of the system, the better off New York taxpayers will be. Of that number, more than 31,000 were living in 101 emergency shelters, with the total daily cost of housing, food and other services pegged at $4.6 million.Ĭity Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) said he believed Adams’ plan “stems from reality setting in that we can’t be the world’s municipal refugee camp.”

We want to be part of all this, what we heard about being in this country.” 1 goal,” he said during a news conference at City Hall.Īdams said that “no matter where I go, I’m hearing the same thing from the asylum seekers: ‘We don’t want to be a burden.

“Our goal is to help them to become self-sufficient as soon as possible. Workers will focus on helping adult migrants file the paperwork needed to get federal work permits, in addition to providing them and their families with “ food and a safe place to sleep,” Adams said. Mayor Adams announced the creation of a new government agency Tuesday to deal with the Big Apple’s $4.2 billion migrant crisis - and said he was in talks with other mayors across the US to take migrants off his hands.Īdams said the Office of Asylum Seeker Operations would open a new, 24-7 processing center for arriving migrants and move those services out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.Īdams said the new location would be “centralized” but didn’t say where or when it would open.Īlso unclear was who will run the new agency and the cost of its annual budget. Migrant crisis threatens NYC’s fiscal stability How Gavin Newsom fights for migrant justice (sometimes)

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