As New York City struggles to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers, another problem has added to the crisis: the lack of legal representation for migrants.
The city has been looking for ways to house asylum seekers since they began flooding in via Texas last year."95% of respondents intend to seek asylum, but less than 10% have been able to find a lawyer to support them," said Daniel Altschuler of Make the Road New York.
"The most immediate thing we can do to help people move out of shelter is provide, which is very expensive, is to provide the legal representation and support to help people get work authorizations and jobs so they can move out of shelter," New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said. "We have the ability, we have the resources, what we need is the political will to get that done," New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said.
The judge agreed the executive orders in both counties suggest discriminatory motives. In Orange County, "the record shows that the desire to exclude migrants and asylum seekers into the community was a motivating factor when issuing the executive order," Judge Nelson Roman wrote.
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