More than 58,000 asylum seekers are now in the city’s care, some sleeping on the streets as residents of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island protest against new migrant shelters.
, a Democrat, has repeatedly blamed the Biden administration for not giving the city more resources to house the migrants and fast-track them for work authorization.
Two senior Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News the administration’s hands are tied because of a rule that requires asylum seekers to wait 180 days before applying for work authorization. The officials said it would take an act of Congress to change the law.But the Adams administration has proposed another solution to the problem: Granting Temporary Protected Status to certain nationalities, such as Venezuelans, that would let them apply for work permits instantly.
A former Homeland Security official said the agency is reluctant to grant Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelans and other nationalities unless there are new crises in their home countries that would justify making recent arrivals in the U.S. eligible. Another challenge, the Homeland Security officials said, was that many of the migrants on the streets of New York had entered the country illegally or without detection, and are not actually seeking asylum through U.S. immigration courts, making them ineligible for asylum.
Meanwhile, the state's governor, also a Democrat, has accused Adams of taking too long to communicate with the state and to take action to avoid a crisis.
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