“We looked at everything from the legality of using any type of cruise ship for temporary housing,” Hizzoner said during an interview with WCBS Sunday. “We’re looking at everything to see, how do we deal with this?” Adams made the proposal hours before The Post reported that a record 9 busloads of migrants traveled through the city. Each bus usually carries between 40 and 50 migrants. Adams believes the cruise ships will help ease the toll on New York’s overwhelming homeless and immigrant issues as shelters struggle. Robert Miller The influx is crippling New York’s shelter system. Full-time facilities are being pushed to the brink and affecting the neighborhood’s quality of life, and the city has opened 23 emergency shelters, but there still aren’t enough beds. Cruise ships could help ease the stress, according to Adams, and were once an alternative the Bloomberg administration considered during its own migration trend. A Norwegian Breakaway was spotted leaving New York under Varrazzano. Wayne Carrington Adams did not reveal more details about the potential floating shelters, but he criticized the federal policy that prohibits immigrants from working in the U.S. before obtaining work permits. “We say, ‘You could come here, but you’re not allowed to work.’ This is unbelievable,” Adams said, noting the shortages in a number of areas, including food, health care and transit. Another recommendation on the immigrant question is to send them to towns upstate New York. Corbis via Getty Images “We have to look and see what are the shortfalls we’re dealing with, how do we enable people to take care of themselves? If not, we, the government, must take care of them. That just doesn’t make sense.” On Friday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand proposed relocating newly arrived immigrants to cities struggling with unemployment, a move that could also secure serious federal funding for municipalities.
