{"id":13976,"date":"2023-11-01T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2023-11-01T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T08:37:45","slug":"hochul-to-biden-take-executive-action-on-asylum-seeker-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=13976","title":{"rendered":"Hochul To Biden: Take Executive Action On Asylum Seeker Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY \u2014 New York shouldn’t have to clean up the federal government’s migrant mess, Gov. Kathy Hochul told President Joe Biden in a starkly worded plea for help.<\/p>\n

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Hochul sent the Biden administration a formal letter that requested the president take desperately needed executive action on the migrant crisis, which has brought 100,000 asylum seekers into the state, largely New York City. <\/p>\n

“I cannot ask New Yorkers to pay for what is fundamentally a federal responsibility and I urge the federal government to take prompt and significant action today to meet its obligation to New York State,” the letter states.<\/p>\n

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The letter’s came with four demands that Hochul outlined in a 10-minute address to New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

Those are:<\/p>\n

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“The reality is we\u2019ve managed thus far without substantive support from Washington,” she said.<\/p>\n

But Hochul’s address didn’t just blame the Biden administration for the crisis.<\/p>\n

She blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “despicable” decision to use asylum seekers as political pawns by shipping them to New York City.<\/p>\n

Migrants deserve compassion, she argued, noting that they’re literally fleeing for the lives from political strife, gang violence, extreme poverty and persecution.<\/p>\n

“People are coming here to seek asylum status here in the United States, so they can be safe,” she said.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK CITY \u2014 New York shouldn’t have to clean up the federal government’s migrant mess, Gov. Kathy Hochul told President Joe Biden in a starkly worded plea for help. Click Here: new arrivals backpacks Hochul sent the Biden administration a formal letter that requested the president take desperately needed executive action on the migrant … <\/p>\n

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