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By Georgett Roberts , Nolan Hicks and Emily Crane
Published Oct. 27, 2023, 10:59 a.m. ET

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New York City is now steering migrants to a new “reticketing

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Some of the migrants who have taken up the city’s offer have already booked plane tickets as far away as
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Morocco, Politico reported .

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The city is now directing some migrants to a “reticketing center” in East Village where they can get a free plane ticket.
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It wasn’t immediately clear where the asylum seekers — or how many of them — have requested to go.

Several migrants who spoke to The Post outside the reticketing center on Friday claimed officials had told
them to head to the address after reaching their stay limit at city-run shelters – but failed to mention it was
for the purpose of getting an airfare.
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“They didn’t tell me anything. They discharged me and said to go to this address,” a 30-year-old migrant
from Guinea said.

“Iexpected when they gave me this address I was going to stay here for a little while until I find a
solution.”

A group of four migrant friends from Venezuela and Ecuador said they came to the East Village location
for assistance after being booted from their shelter four days ago, but said they had nowhere they wanted
to be flown.

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“We are not going anywhere else,” one of the men, Jimmy, 30, said.

He added that they turned down the airfares because they would only be “helpless” when they arrived at a
new destination.

“They have no rooms for us or anything … just the tickets. They can’t help with anything else,” Jimmy
said.

“We are worried because we’ve been sleeping in the streets for four days,” he continued, adding their goal
is to “find jobs so they can rent a room together before it gets cold.”

Another migrant, identified only as Alex, said he, too, turned down a plane ticket out of the Big Apple.

“They offered but I refused because I’ll have work permit in a month,” the 31-year-old, who is originally
from Russia, said.

The city has been dishing out free airfares to migrants who want them for several months now , but the
establishment of the reticketing center is part of its aggressive new strategy to help cope with the
relentless influx of asylum seekers pouring into Gotham.

Separately, the mayor has imposed the 30-day limit — down from the prior 60-day limit — for how long a
single adult migrant can remain in a city-run shelter in a bid to free up space.

After reaching their deadlines, the migrants have to reapply in order to get back into the system.

Less than 20% of migrants who were given a vacate notice subsequently reapplied to remain in the
shelter system as of Sunday, the latest City Hall data shows.

The push comes after Hizzoner warned this week that migrants would soon be sleeping on the streets
because the Big Apple had reached “full capacity.”

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“We are out of room, and it’s not if people will be sleeping on the streets, it’s when. We are at full
capacity,” the mayor said.

More than 130,000 migrants have flooded into the Big Apple since spring 2022 and the city is currently
putting up over 65,000 asylum seekers at its various shelters, the latest City Hall figures show.

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EM
27 October, 2023
Apparently Adams has a few good friends who are travel agents. They’ll be getting a
on every ticket for which the city pays a premium.
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John O'Connor
27 October, 2023
Bingo. You know the city is not dealing with the airlines directly like you or I do. They
having, those who donate to Adams, get some business.
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Silence Dogood
27 October, 2023
How do these people fly when I can't fly without having a bunch of different forms of
and have to go through TSA?
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Conrad DiBuio
27 October, 2023
And starting in 2025 in order to travel to EU countries you will need prior approval and
ubmit to a biometric security check before you can travel. But the Italian island of
recently received 8000 illegal migrants in one day. The island has only 6000
citizen residents.
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Tootie Ramsey
27 October, 2023
Can’t even take Amtrak without valid ID
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COMMON/SENSE
27 October, 2023
For Heaven’s sake, don’t New Yorkers finally realize that the Democrats alone brought this
risis on our land, despite the pleadings of ordinary citizens who are more astute than the
politician? If you always voted for this political party of scoundrels and miscreants, do
think you woul...
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