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PREVIEW: #NYC: Conversation with colleague Harry Siegel of the City.com re the clumsy and even cruel way NYC treats the migrants who are obliged to wander from shelter to shelter with arbitrary limits an mandated obligations -- with migrant children

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #NYC: Conversation with colleague Harry Siegel of the City.com re the clumsy and even cruel way NYC treats the migrants who are obliged to wander from shelter to shelter with arbitrary limits an mandated obligations -- with migrant children seen selling candy on the MTA. More details later.

1910 Lower East Side NYC

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0:18.6

This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Harry Siegel of the city an online journal about the migrants in New York, the tens of thousands of migrants in New York, provided according to the law a place to stay and some food, perhaps not accommodating, but still it's there for short periods of time.

0:23.7

30 days for single males, 60 days for family,

0:26.4

and then they must seek a new place to stay.

0:29.9

They're offered a ticket out of town and then Harry explains it's bizarre it's not getting

0:37.1

better and people are out in the rain and the weather summer coming. St. Bridges is in the East Village, it's a

0:46.8

former Catholic school. Here's Harry Siegel on the city and the way New York City is

0:51.4

treating the migrants now.

0:54.0

When migrants are pushed out of city shelters now,

0:58.0

which happens at an increasingly fast kittens,

1:01.0

New York had a right to shelter, which was very unique, that said anybody

1:07.2

looking for shelter here gets it that same day and nobody should be sleeping on the streets

1:11.0

in effect. This came through a series of court decisions and so forth.

1:14.4

There was just a big negotiation because of all the migrants here and how they had strained that

1:18.6

system that undid some of that. So now, you so now you have single adults who have 30 days and families who

1:27.1

have 60 days to figure out what they're doing get money together and look any

1:30.9

regular New Yorker knows the getting first months, last months, and a security

1:34.6

deposit, even with help from mom and dad for some people, it's a lot of money and it's a difficult

1:41.0

whole decline, including for people who are working.

1:44.0

And many people are coming here to work.

1:45.8

So in this instance, when people are evicted and you can't come before them and

1:50.4

thus don't have a place to stay, they're supposed to go to St. Bridges to get offered a ticket out of town,

1:56.0

and then if they decline that as almost all these people do, to reapply for shelter.

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