The authorities had offered psychological help since they arrived in New York, both to his family and to other immigrants, but “we are still waiting for it.”
A Venezuelan died in a crowded shelter in New York City, which has received thousands of emigrants since last summer, news that has come out amid the call that the city has made to state and federal authorities for the urgent need funds to meet their needs.
The emigrant has been identified as John Ortega, as reported to the media, and took his own life last week in the bathroom of the room where he lived with his wife and 3-year-old daughter, in one of the hotels that the city has rented to house immigrants.
Ortega, 26, the father of three children -although he only traveled with one- arrived in New York with his wife at the end of August, according to Venezuelan activist Jesús Aguais.
Last September, a Venezuelan mother, who arrived in the city with her two children, also took her own life in a public shelter, where thousands of emigrants who have been sent by bus from Texas plus those who arrived on their own are staying. on private trips.
“This has been a very big trauma for her (John Ortega’s wife),” said Aguais, who explained that her Aid for Life foundation has managed to get a Venezuelan therapist to provide psychological help to the wife and daughter.
In an interview with channel 4 of the NBC network, Martínez indicated that following the trauma of finding her husband dead, she and her daughter are afraid and sleep with another family in another room, but the shelter staff warned her that it would be evicted if she did not return to sleep in the room assigned to her.
He also indicated that the authorities had offered psychological help since they arrived in New York, both to his family and to other immigrants, but “we are still waiting for it.”
Last Sunday, Mayor Eric Adams pointed out that 31,000 immigrants have arrived in the city, of which some 20,000 are in public shelters, reiterating his request for “urgent help” from state and federal authorities.
Meanwhile, the city is getting ready to receive a new wave as soon as the future of the Title 42 program that has allowed express deportations is decided. In fact, the City Council held two days of public hearings this week on the immigration issue.
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