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#NYC: The Venezuelans are in the vast majority in the shelters. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#NYC: The Venezuelans are in the vast majority in the shelters. Harry Siegel, TheCity.nyc

https://www.thecity.nyc/immigration/2023/9/21/23884817/venezuelan-migrants-tps-wait-work-permits

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:04.2

I'm John Bachelot.

0:05.2

I welcome Harry Siegel, a senior editor at the City and online journal covering Manhattan

0:10.6

to look at the emergency of the migrants and new information.

0:15.5

The headline in the city, Venezuelan migrants in New York City cheer TPS as a program.

0:22.2

Though weight remains for work permits, the decision made by the federal government,

0:26.8

the Department of Homeland Security, is that Venezuelans who have arrived before July 31,

0:33.5

2023, goes the announcement.

0:37.7

Are eligible for work permits in the United States temporary is the word.

0:44.2

Sometimes it's two years is mentioned, sometimes it's five years is mentioned.

0:48.6

It's a tangled.

0:49.8

What does it mean for New York?

0:51.2

What does it mean for the shelter population overwhelmed by, according to the statistics

0:56.4

in the city, 112,000 people, including children, are in the city shelters of those 112,000?

1:04.9

Moving number all the time, 60,000 are migrants who have arrived.

1:09.8

Harry, a very good evening to you.

1:11.9

The governor, Governor Hocal, is most encouraged by this news from the federal government.

1:17.6

She thanks the president.

1:19.6

She also speaks of clearing out the shelters.

1:23.1

The mayor, mayor Adams, who's on scene, is less enthusiastic.

1:27.6

Help me to understand what this means for the city.

1:30.4

Does it give something to the Venezuelans?

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