New York City opened its first temporary encampment for asylum seekers on Randall’s Island today. Here’s what we know about the complex and plans for other “Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers.”
But the parking lot has a 3-foot slope from top to bottom, so officials said rainwater will run underneath the buildings.Buses will transport asylum seekers to the camp after they arrive at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
The M35 bus runs north to south across the island to the corner of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street in Harlem, near a subway stop for the 4, 5, and 6 trains. The bus on the island from about 5:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. The city is also coordinating with the state-run MTA to add bus service.The city said 90% of the caseworkers hired to serve asylum seekers at the Randall’s Island camp will be able to speak Spanish.The city has spent $325,000 to build the new Randall’s Island complex – and roughly the same amount to initially site the camp at Orchard Beach. That site was scrapped after it was swamped during a weekend rainstorm.
The migrants await court hearings where a judge will decide whether to grant them asylum, or permission to remain in the country long term because they fear persecution in their home countries. Many new arrivals in New York City are fleeing poverty and political violence in Venezuela, officials said.About a third of asylum seekers in each bus arriving at the Port Authority want to travel to other cities; most end up in the city’s homeless shelter system.Team T.L.C.
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