Parents outraged as 6 more NYC schools to house migrants in gyms

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• The city has not explained how habitable the gyms are.
• NYC is gearing up to use school gyms to house migrants, but only detached gyms.
• Ousted ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano clashed with 'GMA' meteorologist Ginger Zee: sources
• Hotel in trendy NYC neighborhood quietly converted into shelter for migrant families
• Migrants moved from school gym in Brooklyn amid protests and backlash
• Most migrants paroled under Biden administration are flying to this state, subpoenaed docs show
• Trump trial updates: Former president faces prospect of more sanctions

Now, the daily stream of migrants feeding the crisis has doubled in size in recent weeks, city officials say. As many as 700 migrants are arriving each day in the city — up from less than half that number since the expiration last Thursday of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allowed immigration officials to expel some border crossers back to Mexico. The reception in the city's northern suburbs has been mixed.

The city has not explained how habitable the gyms are.

He said the city has reached out to hotels and many say they don't want to get into the shelter business. He is referring to a single-day displacement because of severe weather. “Instead of monies coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism, in our Broadway plays, instead of them using those hotels, we’re using those hotels,” Mr. Adams said.

NYC is gearing up to use school gyms to house migrants, but only detached gyms.

This morning, House lawmakers have agreed unanimously to move a bill to a full floor vote. And so heading into November against this backdrop, they even bring in the White House and the Justice Department to help work on this bill. And with the White House, they want to make sure that this is a bill that the president will support. And they work with the Justice Department to shore up the language in the bill to help defend against court challenges. And there’s these accusations that TikTok may be promoting one side of the conflict over the other. And a couple of researchers look at hashtags around Palestine, and they say that the data they pulled shows that TikTok is showing way more pro-Palestine videos and not so much for Israel.

Ousted ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano clashed with 'GMA' meteorologist Ginger Zee: sources

Staten Island didn’t create this problem and shouldn’t have to solve this problem,” said Fossella, a former Republican congressman who blamed the US’ lax immigration and border enforcement policy for the migrant crisis. A list of school buildings has been compiled by the Office of Emergency Management in conjunction with the Mayor’s Office, sources familiar with the plans said. Since the Biden administration announced it would grant work permits to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who had already entered the United States in September, about 2,000 people in New York have filed work permit applications. The parents called for the city to house the migrants at more appropriate locations.

White House says NYC migrants displacing students 'is something that New York City needs to answer to' - Fox News

White House says NYC migrants displacing students 'is something that New York City needs to answer to'.

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This summer, dozens of men, many from Africa, slept on the sidewalk outside an intake center in Manhattan after officials said the shelters were at capacity. He has asked a judge to relieve the city of some of its legal obligations under its unique “right to shelter” mandate. He used an executive order to suspend some of the requirements under the mandate this spring, in anticipation of an influx of new migrants. “While New York City will continue to lead, it’s time the state and federal government step up,” Mr. Adams said at a recent news conference. Multiple parents at both PS 172 and MS 577 said they are arranging to protest outside their respective schools come Tuesday morning.

The mayor has also instituted a rule requiring single adult migrants to reapply for shelter every 30 days. Families with children will now have to reapply after 60 days to remain in shelters. Mayor Eric Adams has called it a humanitarian crisis that will cost the city about $12 billion over three years. In recent weeks, city officials have said they are running out of room. The developments come just days after adult migrants started moving into the gym at PS 188 on Coney Island in Brooklyn.

Housing migrants in school gyms: What we know (and don’t) about NYC’s shelter plans

It has strained Mr. Adams’s relationship with not only New Yorkers but with President Biden. Jessamyn Lee, an elected parent member of the city’s Panel for Educational Policy, said details have been scarce about whether the city plans to bring in shower or bathroom trailers and how that might work logistically. City officials said the police department will be present at those sites around the clock.

And so it’ll be up to a judge on whether those concerns pass muster and justify this sale and even a potential ban of TikTok. In January, the Adams administration inked a new emergency $76.69 million contract with the Hotel Association of New York City to provide “last resort” shelter to migrant families. A hotel in one of New York City’s trendiest neighborhoods has been quietly serving as emergency housing for migrants for the past several months.

Economists said that Venezuela’s economic decline has been among the most drastic they have seen, other than in war. The country’s finances have teetered under an authoritarian socialist government. In 2019, the Trump administration also imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company as a way to cripple the administration of President Nicolás Maduro — a strategy that was briefly eased under President Biden. As of the beginning of December more than 150,100 migrants had arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022.

As the mayor desperately seeks places to house the migrants who are expected to arrive in the city, he also announced plans to begin busing migrants to other counties in the state, setting off a clash with other leaders. On Sunday, he told city leaders to send him a list of all facilities with enough space to accommodate large numbers of migrants. In New York City, where a court-ordered mandate guarantees all people a right to shelter, local officials have explored various unconventional ideas for housing its newest residents. Over the weekend, the city announced it had struck a deal to convert a shuttered historic hotel into a shelter with as many as 1,000 rooms.

We aim to make transcripts available the next workday after an episode’s publication. Hundreds of students, standing for or five people deep, encircled the encampment in a show of solidarity. 00 PM deadline for protesters to clear out of the encampment at the center of Columbia University has come and gone, and there’s still quite a large contingent inside the encampment. For the users who love TikTok, if it actually disappeared, it would be the government taking away a place where maybe they make money, where they get their entertainment, where they figure out what to read or what to cook next.

Orange County officials said that the city was planning on sending seven busses of migrants to the county Tuesday. This has prompted some in the community to say that it is inhumane that migrants won't have access to showers and other resources during their stay. The asylum seekers are not being welcomed with open arms by some in the community who are frustrated with not knowing when this was going to happen. With the end of the school year fast approaching, it's unclear how short term this shelter will be. “While families are already in the process of temporarily being relocated, the city will ensure that essential services and the highest level of support are provided to all impacted by this decision,” Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement. The recently approved state budget provides the city $2.4 billion to help cover migrant costs while the federal government has provided little financial support.

And so March rolls around, and they decide that it’s time to unveil this bill that they’ve been working on for close to a year. But for lawmakers, this doesn’t really make their concerns go away. Instead, this conflict shows them how TikTok could be used to spread propaganda.

What the law says is that app stores and web hosting services wouldn’t be allowed to carry TikTok anymore. So basically, it would kind of die a slow death over time, where it wouldn’t be updated and just kind of peter out. And when this bill is brought to the full House a week later, it passes by an overwhelming majority. And weeks later, it passes in the Senate as part of a broader aid package. And so they’re trying to make it as rock solid as possible so that they can win in court when TikTok challenges this law.