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.
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.