REMARKS
Challenges of stabilizing asylum seekers within 60 days
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Council Members and Christine Quinn discuss the unrealistic expectation of stabilizing asylum seekers within 60 days, given the multiple challenges they face. Quinn emphasizes the insufficient time frame for addressing trauma, settling children in school, finding work, and securing housing.
- 60 days is inadequate for stabilization, even for long-term residents
- Asylum seekers face additional challenges such as language barriers and cultural adjustment
- The short timeframe doesn't account for the complex needs of trauma survivors
- The policy's short timeline suggests it's not designed for successful outcomes
Alexa Avilés
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Yeah.
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In in your experience, have you seen folks been able to, stabilize in 60 days on, growing New York City?
Christine Quinn
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I mean, I think it would be hard for any client we got to stabilize in 60 days because you end up in a wind shelter if you've been evicted, if you're a survivor of domestic violence, if you're a survivor of sexual abuse.
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So dealing with that well, 1, getting your child situated in school, if it's a new school.
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2, beginning your own healing process through whatever you've been through.
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And make no mistake, being evicted is a trauma.
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3, then getting your work life in order, if that means just stabilizing where you are or going through training to get another job, and then beginning the housing process.
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Now it's good.
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We don't have the 90 day rule that prevents you looking for housing right away, but 60 days is an incredibly short period of time, particularly since the case manager or housing specialist isn't just dealing with 1 person.
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They're dealing with a lot of people.
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So, so that's just with what you might say the traditional client.
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But then you add on to that somebody who has literally walked to the United States, and then unceremoniously been put on a bus without their permission to New York with nothing but, you know, their t shirt and their flip flops.
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We had one client who had the same clothes on for 15 days.
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They didn't tell us they needed to close.
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We then gave them clothes because they had they took nothing.
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So you add that trauma in.
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You add the language issues in.
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You add a whole new public school educational system you have to come to understand, and 60 days is a drop in
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the bucket.
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Yeah.
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And they
Alexa Avilés
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know that.
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Right?
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They didn't
Christine Quinn
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pick 300 and bucket.
Alexa Avilés
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Yeah.
Christine Quinn
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And they know that.
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Right?
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They didn't pick 365 days.
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You know, they picked a very short period of time, and I would argue 30 days for singles is even, you know, worse given, how hard it is.
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There's no more SROs in the city.
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Right?
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So Yeah.
Alexa Avilés
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Just to get an appointment takes 30 days,
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but alone.
Alexa Avilés
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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And I think, you know, I, the even some of the outcomes, right, or lack thereof Right.
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That clearly the administration could not respond to.
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It speaks volumes that it's really not about establishing a particular outcome in such a rapid time frame.
Christine Quinn
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And throughout this entire time, we've seen the administration take a very, anti or negative posture towards the migrants.
