Posted on 09/28/2022 1:27:24 AM PDT by Libloather
Mayor Adams acknowledged Tuesday that his administration’s controversial migrant tent camp in the Bronx may violate local right-to-shelter rules that have tripped him up several times this summer as the city struggles to accommodate waves of Latin American asylum seekers.
The decadesold right-to-shelter law requires the city to provide a bed to anyone who needs one, and also stipulates certain benchmark amenities, such as a set amount of space between beds and access to lockers, laundry and mail services. Amid an enormous influx of migrants in recent months, Adams has repeatedly said his administration must “reassess” the law, though he hasn’t specified how or which aspects of it he’d target for reform.
During a press conference in Manhattan Tuesday morning, Adams shed some light on the matter as he said for the first time that he does not believe right-to-shelter rules should apply to the tent facility that the city is erecting in the Orchard Beach parking lot to house hundreds of migrants.
“The migrant crisis is outside of the housing initiative that we are doing for right-to-shelter,” Adams told reporters when asked if the Orchard Beach site will comply with right-to-shelter protocols. “These are two different entities. We are dealing with a humanitarian crisis that was created by human hands.”
Earlier in the news conference, he said, “This is not a shelter issue. This is a humanitarian, refugee, migrant crisis.”
By differentiating between homelessness and migration, Adams could be staking out a legal framework for why the city should be able to skirt the right-to-shelter law when it comes to housing the thousands of migrants who have arrived in the city in recent months after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in hopes of seeking asylum.
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Since when have Leftist Progressive given a sh*t about rules and the ‘rule of law’, unless of course its applied to a Repub or Conservative?
“reassess” the law….. love that one…… “officer we need to “reassess” the speeding law”……. or “well, IRS agent we need to “reassess” the law about my tax liability”….. I can’t wait to use “reassess”!
Where’s Letitia James on this?
If shes running out of trumped up Trump charges, how about what Mayor Adams is neglecting to do?
Yeah, by his hands.
Eric Adams made the point when first elected mayor that New York City is a "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens. Let Eric Adams live in his tent city.
Set up tents in the park surrounding the New York City mayor's mansion.
Put them on the upper west side.
This is a treasonous invasion by criminals and it all began when jorge "NWO" busho was in office. O'Bummer ramped it up and since he and jorge got away with it, pedo joe has pulled out all the stops.
This is treason. That is the crisis.
Since when do liberals worry about laws and rules?
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