2023-11-07 16:07:10
More than 100 mayors of American cities requested, in a letter addressed Tuesday to the federal administration, additional funding to manage the migration problem which has worsened over the last two years.
In the letter, these mayors consider the $1.4 billion in funding requested from Congress by President Joe Biden to be insufficient to help at the state and local levels provide shelter and services to migrants.
“We are mayors of cities across America, cities on or near the border and others where migrants, including those awaiting asylum, converge,” they write in the letter. on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors.
Noting that their cities are facing waves of migrants, these mayors say they need more help to provide them with food, housing, basic services and access to employment.
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“In many of our cities, municipal government agencies and local nonprofits are overwhelmed. They simply cannot meet the need to provide them with this most basic assistance,” they lament in their missive to the White House.
This letter follows another letter from the mayors of five major cities who also asked the head of the American executive branch to obtain more federal aid to manage the influx of migrants. The mayors of Denver, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and New York had argued that they did not have enough aid and resources to support thousands of migrants.
“While we greatly appreciate the proposed additional federal funding, our city budgets and local taxpayers continue to bear the burden of the current federal crisis,” they further state in the letter.
Last August, the governors of Massachusetts and New York sent a letter to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, in which they called on the federal government to provide financial assistance and expedited work authorizations to allow new arrivals to find a job more quickly and start earning a living.
Some states, notably Texas and Florida, transported immigrants by bus or plane to other states and cities such as California, Massachusetts, New York, and Chicago.
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