Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has described the situation as a crisis and has begun to warn that shelters are so full that migrants will soon be forced onto the street as winter approaches. “I cannot say this enough. You know, we are out of the room,” he told reporters this week. “And it’s not ‘if’ people will be sleeping on the streets, it’s when. We are at full capacity.”
The city’s plan to offer migrants transportation builds upon previous efforts to send the asylum-seekers elsewhere, though the establishment of the dedicated reticketing center marks a renewed emphasis on the strategy. The city has stressed that the offer for travel is voluntary.
It’s still fucked up. Nobody wants to spend the money and do the work necessary to make sure these people are capable of living comfortable lives. They’ll just keep getting handed off and shipped elsewhere over and over.
What a way to live.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been homeless in New England in the winter, but I definitely have and if you’re not from the area you’re straight up not ready for how cold it’s going to get.
If I was homeless in New York I’d take a ticket in a heart beat.
Right, but you’re missing the point. We’re still just passing the hot potato around, and nobody is doing anything to actually solve any of the problems that get us here.
I think the point in this case is not freezing to death. We’re always going to have homelessness as long as our society is an evil capitalist dystopia. I’m not sure that NYC is equipped to tackle that particular problem on their own.
I think that’s your point. As in that’s the reason you’d take the ticket. And so would I probably. That’s exactly why they always do this around this time of year. Who wouldn’
Do you think they bus them away for the summer, and then bring them back to continue being homeless during warmer months? The goal is to get them to leave and never come back so nobody has to look at them anymore, and the pretense (which isn’t necessarily fake or complete made up) is that they’ll go somewhere warmer. Just shuffle them around to a different city, with probably less infrastructure and fewer safety nets.
Our government (not just talking NYC here, they do it better than most places in the US and it’s still shit) should be building housing for these people, instead of paying for them to leave.
The reality is, our entire country is more than equipped to handle this problem. We just choose not to.
Same kind of deal with most any refuge situation though. Country gets into a war for whatever reason, some crazy person gets in power and decides X group is undesirable, natural disaster levels a town, someone has to foot the bill but just passing it off to whatever location they land at won’t work. Within the USA we have things like FEMA that could help out by pooling resources from multiple places to support an affected region, but that becomes a lot more difficult when you’re talking international. We can’t exactly demand taxes from someplace else entirely to fix the issue, and even if we have local resources it’s going to detract from supporting the local people that already need help.
It’s stupid and largely the fault of a profit driven mindset by society. We have housing in abundance that nobody can afford and piles of food thrown out at the end of the workday in restaurants and cafes because they’re not allowed to give it away (supposedly for health reasons but if it was good enough to sell before closing time it’s good enough after).