MIGRANT SURGE: MISPLACED CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the biggest conversations not only in America but other countries as well as some of the |
| 0:04.8 | results of the unchecked migration coming into the countries and remember people that brought up |
| 0:10.6 | anybody whether it was government or media that brought up |
| 0:13.0 | up legitimate concerns that surrounded this where you know let's take take |
| 0:17.2 | through it take us through the the kind of attacks it was first was a |
| 0:20.8 | your racist then it was your far right whatever but now something's changed local media |
| 0:26.2 | is actually being forced to cover these points in balanced ways take a look at |
| 0:30.7 | this all right we're talking about the impact the migrant crisis is having on Massachusetts resources. |
| 0:35.8 | New York City planning to continue using pricey Manhattan hotel rooms to house some of the city's |
| 0:40.6 | 200,000 plus migrants. |
| 0:42.7 | The governor announced over the weekend she plans to turn a former state president Norfolk |
| 0:46.2 | into an emergency shelter. |
| 0:47.8 | The influx of migrants moving to Logan's Board causing some government officials there to speak out saying the current |
| 0:53.7 | growth is not sustainable. More than 6,000 people still live in city-run migrant |
| 0:59.5 | shelters. Since August of 2022 the city of Chicago has spent more than 400 million dollars, |
| 1:05.6 | according to the city's spending website. |
| 1:07.6 | New York City, going to close the Randall's Island migrant shelter by the end of February. |
| 1:12.4 | However, the city is now looking for |
| 1:14.5 | 14,000 hotel rooms to shelter migrants all the way through 2025. 25% of the |
| 1:20.7 | city's hotel stock is now dedicated to migrants. |
| 1:23.6 | That's an insane number. |
| 1:25.6 | We got 150 right now. |
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