New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams and Representatives Jamaal Bowman, Yvette Clarke, Daniel Goldman, Grace Meng, and Nydia Velásquez of the New York Congressional delegation issued the following joint statement on the need for legislative and executive action on the federal level to address both the immediate asylum seeker crisis and longer-term immigration infrastructure.
"For almost a year, New York City has been a focal point of the ongoing challenge of aiding asylum seekers – but this issue did not originate when the first bus arrived at Port Authority. It is rooted in decades of inaction toward reforming our immigration infrastructure and agencies’ inability to adapt to the needs of people arriving in our country.
"During NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, we are raising our voices and elevating the immigrant experience to urge action. New York City, a city of immigrants, needs aid in meeting the current crisis, and at the same time, we must implement real, achievable, sustainable changes to our federal systems of immigration to help ensure that people coming to our country for its opportunities do not find themselves arriving in a new crisis of our own inertia."
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