Most New Yorkers want migrants to be resettled upstate, and agree there’s no more room in the city: Poll
New Yorkers agree there is “no room in a hotel” for more migrants seeking asylum in the five boroughs and support a proposal to relocate them upstate, a new poll shows.
A majority of city voters – 63% – don’t think the Big Apple can accommodate asylum seekers, and 31% think the city has enough room, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.
The poll also showed that voters approve – by a margin of 65% to 26% – of Adams’ proposal to send some migrants to areas of upstate New York with declining populations.
Seven out of 10 voters said they see it as a crisis for the five districts as more than 40,000 migrants have arrived in the city seeking asylum since last year. Only 25% of voters answered that they do not consider this a crisis, and 5% have no opinion.
Some 43,200 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple since spring, with 28,200 of them living in 86 taxpayer-funded temporary shelters and processing centers.
A new poll has found that a majority of New Yorkers want migrants to be resettled upstate.
Migrants outside the Watson Hotel with their belongings on February 1, 2023.
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Migrants board the bus after leaving the Watson Hotel.
A protester calling for work permits for migrants.
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The influx prompted Adams to declare “there is no room in the hotel”, pleading with the state and federal governments for more than $1 billion in financial assistance.
Gov. Kathy Hochul provided more than $1 billion in emergency funding for the migrant crisis in her record-breaking $227 billion budget proposal released Wednesday.
The plan would also require both New York and the White House to cover a portion of the overall cost of housing and catering for migrants, but it was unclear how much they would be on the hook for.
The poll found that 82% of voters believe the federal government has an obligation to help New York with migrant asylum seekers, compared to 14% who don’t.
This includes 90% of Democratic voters polled, 64% of Republicans and 80% of independents.
A majority – between 67% and 27% – of voters also believe the federal government should ease work requirements for migrants, a process that typically takes about six months after a person applies for asylum.
A bus carrying migrants arrives at a facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn on January 31, 2023.
A migrant carrying his belongings to the Red Hook facility.
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“While most voters acknowledge that the influx of migrants is reaching crisis proportions, New Yorkers generally agree that they are assimilating into the workforce,” said Tim Malloy, polling analyst at Quinnipiac University.
The analysis had an error of +/- 2.7 percentage points and was conducted from 26 to 30 January.
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