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‘Let them work’: Hochul, Adams call on Biden to expedite work permits for migrants

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on May 22, 2023
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Governor Kathy Hochul joined Mayor Eric Adams and New York City’s business leaders on Monday to give President Biden a simple message: let tens of thousands of newly arrived asylum seekers in the city work.

The pair came together Monday morning at Union Square Events, in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, to call on President Biden to expedite work authorizations for the over 41,000 migrants currently in the city’s homeless and emergency shelter systems.

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