Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams are calling on the federal government to ease policies to allow asylum seekers to look for work
in Brooklyn on Monday to call for more federal assistance in contending with the significant influx of migrants to the city and state. Although Adams had previously specified a need for more financial support and change in strategy at the southern border, the two leaders came together on a specific issue: changing work-authorization policies to allow asylum seekers to apply to join the workforce in an expedited fashion.
As the system currently stands, a person seeking asylum would have to wait 180 days after they’ve filed for asylum to start applying for work authorization. Hochul feels a change in the policy could have a dual effect — helping migrants looking for work while helping to fill open positions across the state. According to the governor, the state currently has 5,000 open farm jobs as well as 5,000 roles in food service and 4,000 cleaning and janitorial positions available.
Adams thanked Hochul for her partnership, laying out what he called a “challenge of epic proportions” in dealing with the rapid increase of asylum seekers in the city. He noted that “5,800 people came to our city last week. Those are factual numbers. They’re not made-up numbers. And we are seeing, the week before, 4,200. Just in one location alone, we had over 800. Not only by buses. Through the airports, through cars, through every mode of transportation.
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