The City Continues to Struggle With Migrants
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The city continues to struggle to provide housing and care to the many migrants coming here. Anne Williams-Isom, New York City deputy mayor for health and human services, discusses the latest plans for where and how long to house people, the elusive work permits and plans to relocate people to other cities in New York State.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lara Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | First of all, on that BBC story, they were just airing about Rupert Murdock, stepping |
| 0:19.3 | down as Fox News CEO. I mean, News Corp CEO. Can you believe Locklin got it? I was short, |
| 0:26.4 | was going to be Kendall or Shiv, not Roman, no way, but Locklin. Anyway, we'll begin today for |
| 0:34.9 | real with potentially big news on the asylum-seeker situation in New York and around the country. |
| 0:41.7 | The Biden administration has announced that it will offer temporary protected status, |
| 0:46.8 | which comes with the authorization to work in this country legally for close to half a million |
| 0:52.0 | Venezuelans in the U.S. as long as you were here before July 31st. This is just the kind of thing |
| 0:58.9 | that Mayor Adams and Governor Hoca have been asking for for New York, and while it doesn't solve |
| 1:03.6 | the whole issue of paying for asylum-seekers resettlement by any means, the New York immigration |
| 1:09.2 | coalition is quoted saying it will apply to about 60,000 Venezuelans in New York. That would be about |
| 1:15.6 | half of all the recent arrivals in the city who can now at least try to support themselves. |
| 1:21.2 | We'll talk about that and other related issues with Mayor Adams' chief point person on the |
| 1:26.4 | asylum-seekers now. That's Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services and Williams Isom. She has |
| 1:32.8 | also been chair of Child Welfare Studies at the Fordham Graduate School of Social Services, |
| 1:40.5 | and she was the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone. Deputy Mayor, thanks for coming on today. |
| 1:45.0 | Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you so much, Brian. Thank you for having me and good to see you again. |
| 1:51.2 | Can you first give us your reaction to the announcement from the Biden administration? What do you |
| 1:55.8 | think it will mean for Venezuelans in New York and for the financial burden on the city? |
| 2:01.4 | So let me take a step back and I was checking my notes and I saw that when I last spoke to you as |
| 2:06.8 | was in December, and at that time, Brian, we had a little over 28,000 asylum-seekers had gone through |
| 2:14.8 | our system and over 20,000 we were caring for. And I just can't believe that here I am nine months |
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