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New York City migrant families

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NEW YORK - Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New confusion: Will drivers be
York City Hall on Tuesday to demand Mayor Eric Adams end his plan to limit charged to exit the zone?
the number of days newly arrived immigrants can remain in city-run
shelters.

The late afternoon demonstration of students and parents at City Hall Park
was in response to an order Adams issued in October limiting homeless DAILY NEWSLETTER
migrants and their children to 60 days in city housing. The Democrat said
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the move was necessary to relieve a shelter system overwhelmed by
asylum-seekers crossing the southern U.S. border.

Liza Schwartzwald, a director at the New York Immigration Coalition, one of

the groups that organized Tuesday’s rally, said the time limits only serve to
uproot families who have already made the dangerous journey across the
border after fleeing poverty and crime in their homelands. By clicking Sign Up, I confirm
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"There’s no excuse to retraumatize these families," she said. and Terms of Service .

Karen Alford, a vice president at the United Federation of Teachers, said the
policy will force migrant students just settling into classes to move from Latest News View More
school to school as their families seek out new places to live in the city.
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"As a city we must do better," she said.
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Spokespersons for Adams didn't respond to an email seeking comment. But wreaking havoc in Paterson,
the mayor earlier Tuesday suggested frustrated New Yorkers should be Wayne, Little Falls

protesting in the streets of the nation's capital instead.

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"We need to mobilize and rally and go to D.C. and say to the national blaze
government this is not fair what is happening to New York City," said
Adams, who has been among the big city mayors appealing for more NYC council bans solitary
confinement
federal help in managing the surge of migrants they say are arriving in their
cities with little to no coordination, support or resources from President Joe
Biden's administration. NYC subway crime: Felony
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The 60-day limit is among the Adams administration’s efforts to rein in New
York’s decades-old " right to shelter," which obligates the city to provide
emergency housing to anyone who asks.

The first families affected by the order were expected to reach their time
limit just days after Christmas. But the mayor’s office told The Associated
Press last week that those migrants will receive extensions through early
January.

Roughly 3,500 families have been issued notices so far. Single adult
migrants are already capped at 30-days in shelters.

Those who still need help after their move-out deadline must reapply. But
city officials have warned that a new placement might not happen right
away. Families could also get sent to the sprawling tent complexes the city
has constructed far from Manhattan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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