Although the city does keep track of the immigration status of children enrolling in school, this comes as around 20,000 migrant children have arrived in New York City since last spring and are currently in the city’s care.
The upcoming school year is the latest hurdle the city is navigating in this migrant crisis. Just last week, more than 2,900 migrants arrived here in the city.NYC migrant crisis: Heated protests held outside new Staten Island shelter
Children living in temporary shelters do not have to be vaccinated to enroll in school - that includes migrant children. "There have been some schools where they've gotten almost more than their fair share," Banks said. "They got more students than others. Some of that is driven by where the temporary housing is and so in those places we've worked really hard to try and mitigate for that."
"I still can't quite get to why everybody has to come to New York City," Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said. "I think that's the question that we want an answer to also."Migrants arrive in NYC to find no water, bathrooms, or workThe Department of Homeland Security in a letter this week outlined 11 federal sites the city can likely use to house migrants, but most of the locations are upstate.
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