In another sign New York City is grappling with an increase of migrants entering the shelter system, the city has officially opened a sprawling, 84,000-square-foot emergency shelter on Manhattan's Randall's Island.
to where they have family in the United States or where they are required to show up to immigration court to proceed with their asylum claims.
New York City Emergency Management had already started building the facility at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, but severe rains that moved over the region in recent weeks proved the location to be a flood risk, and the facility was moved to Randall's Island, just northeast of Manhattan. Officials look out into the dormitory during a tour of the Randall's Island Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center on Oct. 18, 2022, in New York City.A gaming, TV watching lounge for the temporarily housed migrants at the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center, which is designed to process and temporarily house migrants arriving from other states on Randall's Island in New York City, Oct. 18, 2022.
Although officials aim to move migrants in and out of the center in under 96 hours, they will be allowed to stay longer on a case-by-case basis until they find more stable housing."New York City has had the need to open a welcome center big enough to have the capacity to welcome as many newly arrived immigrants, asylum-seekers," said Castro.
"Although our compassion is limitless, our resources are not," Adams said Oct. 7. "This is unsustainable."
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