It payments itself as a compassionate sanctuary metropolis, however New York Metropolis rejects extra asylum seeker purposes than every other metropolis in the US.
Whereas the town has a proper to shelter legislation that has housed tens of 1000’s of migrants during the last 12 months, it’s the hardest place to win an asylum declare, as reported by The New York Instances.
In line with Human Rights First, solely 5 % of asylum claims have been granted in NYC in 2020, in comparison with the nationwide fee of 28 %. In 2021, the town granted 7 %.
San Francisco, in the meantime, has the best acceptance fee for asylum seekers – granting 50 % of purposes in 2020 and 47 % in 2021.
Los Angeles, Newark, and Arlington, Texas, rounded up the highest 5 cities with the best share of accepted asylum purposes.
It payments itself because the capital of the world, however New York Metropolis rejects extra asylum seeker purposes than every other metropolis in the US
New Orleans, Chicago, Houston and Boston additionally beat NYC by way of granted asylums during the last years.
To be granted asylum, migrants should show they’re persecuted of their dwelling international locations or have a ‘well-founded concern’ there resulting from their race, faith, nationality or political opinion.
Up to now this 12 months, NYC’s asylum places of work, wan by the Division of Homeland Safety, has acquired practically 25,000 asylum claims.
Individuals who labored at asylum places of work in NYC informed the Instances that they typically felt ‘stress to maneuver shortly, grill asylum seekers searching for fraud and to reject instances the place asylum is likely to be granted at one other workplace.’
Anwen Hughes, director of authorized technique for refugee packages at Human Rights First, mentioned the New York asylum places of work are a ‘hostile surroundings.’
Rejected instances typically find yourself in immigration courts, a part of the Justice Division; as a result of migrants are allowed to remain within the nation whereas their instances are resolved, they keep in limbo whereas a call is made.
New York Metropolis has struggled during the last two years with an enormous surge in asylum seekers.
Migrants lined up within the East Village outdoors St. Brigid College on the lookout for shelter in Manhattan
In March, mayor Eric Adams succeeded in altering the town’s distinctive ‘proper to shelter’ rule requiring it to offer short-term housing for each homeless one that asks for it.
Earlier than the brand new rule got here into impact, grownup migrants with out youngsters have been nonetheless restricted to 30 days in a shelter, however they have been in a position to instantly reapply for a brand new mattress with no questions requested.
The town additionally restricts migrant households with younger youngsters to 60-day stays, however they aren’t impacted by the brand new rule and might nonetheless reapply with out offering any justification.
Immigrant rights and homeless advocates say they’re intently monitoring the eviction course of, which impacts some 15,000 migrant adults. The town shelter system at present homes about 65,000 migrants, however a lot of these are households with youngsters.
Migrants cross into the US from Mexico, the day after President Biden signed an govt order to alter border coverage on June 5 in California
Adams, a Democrat, has pushed again at critics who’ve known as the town’s more and more restrictive migrant shelter guidelines inhumane and haphazardly rolled out, saying the town merely can’t preserve housing migrants indefinitely.
New York Metropolis has offered short-term housing to just about 200,000 migrants because the spring of 2022, with greater than a thousand new arrivals coming to the town every week, he famous.
‘Folks mentioned it’s inhumane to place folks out through the wintertime, so now they are saying it’s inhumane to do it within the summertime,’ Adams mentioned. ‘There’s no good time. There’s no good time.’
In the meantime president Joe Biden has signed an govt order to close the border when crossings attain 2,500 a day and to limit asylum for migrants coming from Mexico, and blamed Donald Trump for scuttling a legislative resolution.
The plan ripped as an election ‘stunt’ by critics might nonetheless enable as much as 1.75 tens of millions to return into the US.
Biden touted the brand new order in remarks on the White Home, the place he blamed Trump for the collapse of a bipartisan immigration measure in Congress.
