As the mayor continues to blame Washington for the migrant crisis, others in his party are offering up ideas closer to home.
, have also offered variations of work permit ideas through state legislation and city initiatives.
Myrie, a first generation Afro-Latino New Yorker and son of immigrants from Costa Rica, stressed that it was vital for city leaders to push back against rhetoric aimed at scaring New Yorkers and offer more creative solutions that would allow the city to embrace the migrants' arrival as a way to address other city needs.
“The playbook we’ve been using for more than a year on the migrant crisis isn’t working,” said Grace Rauh, executive director of the 5Boro Institute, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. “If the state can't get it done, we think the mayor needs to step up here and figure out a path forward,” she added.
A spokesperson for City Hall stressed that the administration has been working to manage a growing humanitarian crisis with seemingly little support from the federal government.
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