New York, NY—Yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the City will open two new Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers (HERRC), which will house asylum seekers who had been previously staying at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal HERRC. The two locations, one in Midtown Manhattan and one in Bushwick, Brooklyn, will be congregate settings with a capacity for 1,200 single adult men.

New York, NY—Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams released “The Road Forward: Blueprint to Address New York City’s Response to the Asylum Seeker Crisis,” an overview of his administration’s plan for handling the next phase of the city’s response to the 50,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in NYC since last spring.

New York, NY—Today, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced measures by the NYS Department of Labor (NYSDOL) to address child labor in New York State, spurred by the recent investigation by the New York Times. The NYSDOL will lead an interagency child labor task force, a public education campaign, an employee pledge program, and a labor trafficking response unit.

Albany Day of Action calls on Gov. Hochul to include Coverage for All in the state budget, and include immigrants in the Federal 1332 Waiver request.

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NEW YORK — Exactly one month before the New York State budget is due, immigrant New Yorkers with the Coverage for All Coalition alongside State Senator Gustavo Rivera and Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas rallied in Albany to call for state leaders to expand access to health coverage to all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, in the state budget.

New York, NY—Yesterday, it was revealed during a New York City Council Committees on Immigration and on Criminal Justice hearing that NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) officers were sharing information about incarcerated immigrants with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Emails sent from DOC officers to ICE were intended to help facilitate ICE pickups and deportations.

New York, NY—Yesterday, asylum seekers refused to leave the Watson Hotel, after the city attempted to move them to a new 1,000-bed HERRC at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. 

Murad Awawdeh, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition:

“Housing rights experts and immigrant rights advocates like ourselves have been stating for weeks that the new Brooklyn Cruise Terminal HERRC is in a transit desert, much like the Orchard Beach and Randalls Island locations were, and doesn’t meet the health and safety needs of residents.

New York—On Friday, January 27, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), elected officials, member organizations, housing and education rights allies, police reform organizations, and immigrant New Yorkers rallied and held a press conference on the City Hall Steps.

New York, NY—Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered his second State of the City address, barely mentioning the needs of immigrant New Yorkers. In his hour-long address, Mayor Adams briefly spoke of the work the City has done to welcome asylum seekers, but spent most of that time calling on other levels of government for help.

New York–NYC Mayor Adams has released a FY2024 preliminary budget that does little to address the increase in new arrivals to New York City and the challenges facing all low-income families. Yet he continues to stoke division by misleading the public with MAGA talking points, scapegoating asylum seekers to justify his austerity budget.

New York, NY—Yesterday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams released the City’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2024, with relatively little investment made to support immigrant New Yorkers to fully integrate and thrive in New York City. Today, his Administration asked the State to commit funding to support asylum seekers, in addition to their calls to the Federal government.