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via nydailynews:
Migrant families with children will only be able to stay in city shelters for 60 days at a time under a new policy Mayor Adams is expecting to announce.
The policy comes on top of an Adams administration restriction limiting consecutive shelter stays for adult migrants without kids to 30 days.
Since the restriction on adults was first implemented in July, migrant families with kids have been the only category of asylum seekers guaranteed beds in the city shelter system without time limits.
In rolling out the restriction on adults, Adams and his advisers argued the policy would help the city ensure migrant families with kids are prioritized for placement in the city’s overcrowded shelter systems.
However, with more than 62,000 mostly Latin American migrants still in city shelters, Adams has decided to place the 60-day clock on migrant families with kids, too. He could enact the new restriction as early as Friday afternoon, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to preempt the announcement.
Homeless New Yorkers are not impacted by the time restrictions.
The source argued the new policy will be “incredibly disruptive” to asylum-seeking families with children as thousands of migrant kids are enrolled in city schools.
“Are these kids going to have to switch schools every 60 days?” the source said. “This is clearly just about deterrence and scaring people into not coming here. You’re basically harassing people out of shelter.”
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