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Incoming, the buses from the border are back, City officials anticipating they'll drop a thousand migrants a week into a city already overwhelmed.
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This is an unprecedented emergency. - At a city council hearing today the Adams Administration testified with the shelter system at capacity.
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They might have to reopen that massive tent on Randall's Island. A plan the city council says it opposes.
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You've referenced commissioner Iscol reopening the Randall's Island facility as a possibility, and this council stands opposed to reinstating those open Tent City facilities.
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By the time that emergency shelter on Randall's Island was ready to go, a change in border policy had slowed the flow of migrants.
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This city is going to go belly up, trying to provide for people that we care about, and nobody else does.
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Since May, more than 31 000 Latin American migrants have been sent to New York City, which has received none of the help requested from the federal government.
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It is necessary for the city to effectively respond to this humanitarian crisis with all stakeholders, especially in order to address long-term needs.
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Council members today with many questions about the care from food to shelter, to Legal Services, and notably mental health.
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Every staff member you saw has had psychological first aid training, that means every staff member is a set of eyes to see who needs mental health the most.
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While City Health officials were testifying this afternoon about plans to provide mental health care to traumatized migrants, News 4 confirmed and reported that a second migrant committed suicide last week inside a shelter in Queens.
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Police sources say a father of three in his twenties left a note to take care of his three children. - I am really concerned about the lack of money for mental health support.
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After the hearing City Health officials told us they were not allowed to answer our questions about the suicide.