A partir del 24 de junio, todas las personas que busquen refugio, incluidos los inmigrantes recién llegados, deberán acudir a los centros de acogida habituales del Departamento de Servicios para Personas sin Hogar, según confirmó City Limits.

Fuera del Hotel Roosevelt la semana pasada, que albergaba solicitantes de asilo de la ciudad. La escena contrasta radicalmente con la de hace dos años, cuando los migrantes que esperaban una cama en el refugio solían hacer fila afuera. (Victoria Moran Garcia/City Limits)

Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés el 26 de junio. Traducido por Daniel Parra. Read the English version here.

Con el cierre esta semana del centro de procesamiento para migrantes y solicitantes de asilo en el Hotel Roosevelt, la ciudad de Nueva York no solo está cerrando un capítulo de su larga historia de inmigración, sino que también está desmantelando su sistema de dos niveles de refugios que separaba a inmigrantes.

Ahora, los centros de admisión tradicionales del Departamento de Servicios para Personas sin Hogar (DHS por sus siglas en inglés) serán el punto de partida para las personas migrantes que busquen refugio en la ciudad, explicó la alcaldía.

Desde el 24 de junio, las familias migrantes con hijos menores de 21 años, las mujeres embarazadas solteras y las familias con una persona en embarazo deberán acudir a la oficina de Prevención, Asistencia y Alojamiento Temporal (Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing o PATH, por sus siglas en inglés) en el Bronx si quieren conseguir una cama.

A partir de esa fecha, los hombres solteros mayores de 18 años deberán registrarse en el Centro de Admisión de la calle 30, en Manhattan, mientras que las mujeres solteras deberán acudir al centro HELP Women’s Center para Mujeres, en Brooklyn.

Si bien se informó que la alcaldía devolvería el control de todos los refugios de la ciudad al DHS, reduciendo su extensa red de Centros de Respuesta y Ayuda Humanitaria de Emergencia (HERRC por sus siglas en inglés) para inmigrantes, las autoridades afirmaron que seguirán gestionando un número limitado de HERRCs temporales de emergencia que no pertenecen al DHS.

El refugio del Hotel Roosevelt, que cuenta con más de mil habitaciones, albergaba aproximadamente 50 familias al 11 de junio. Además, el hotel dejará de funcionar como refugio a partir del 1 de julio, según informaron las autoridades a City Limits.

Muchos de los que se alojaban en el hotel —apodado la “nueva Ellis Island” por ser la primera parada para decenas de miles de inmigrantes que buscaban refugio— ya fueron trasladados a uno de los últimos HERRCs que quedaban, en el Row Hotel, cerca de Times Square, según defensores y familias alojadas en el refugio.

La ciudad ha cerrado 62 refugios para migrantes desde el pasado mes de junio, ya que el número de personas sigue disminuyendo. El Row Hotel no se encuentra entre los HERRCs programados para cerrar este año, según ha declarado un portavoz.

En febrero, cuando el alcalde Eric Adams anunció los planes para cerrar el Hotel Roosevelt, lo calificó como un hito significativo en la respuesta de casi tres años de la ciudad de Nueva York a la crisis humanitaria de los solicitantes de asilo.

Un autobús del MTA lleva a inmigrantes recién llegados a uno de los Centros de Respuesta y Ayuda Humanitaria de Emergencia (HERRC) de la ciudad, situado en Randall’s Island, el 18 de octubre de 2023. El complejo de carpas cerró en febrero, al igual que otra docenas de refugios para migrantes que la ciudad ha cerrado en los últimos meses.. (Adi Talwar/City Limits)

“Cada vez que se cierra un centro, ya sea un centro de acogida para recién llegados o de otro tipo, una de nuestras principales preocupaciones siempre ha sido si la ciudad tiene la capacidad suficiente para satisfacer las necesidades de las personas que se ven desplazadas”, afirmó Will Watts, subdirector ejecutivo de defensa de la Coalition for the Homeless. “Seguimos siendo escépticos al respecto”.

Cuando se le preguntó qué centro sustituiría al centro de procesamiento para inmigrantes como punto integral para las familias migrantes, la oficina del alcalde respondió que el DHS prestará servicios de gestión de casos a través de sus organizaciones contratadas.

“Es obviamente importante que la ciudad tenga en cuenta las necesidades específicas de esta población”, afirmó Kathryn Kliff, abogada de Legal Aid Society. “Sin duda, presionaremos para garantizar que el personal del DHS reciba formación sobre el tipo de situación particular en la que pueden encontrarse estos clientes, que quizá no sea la misma que la de los clientes del DHS que no son recién llegados”.

En los demás HERRCs, la ciudad contará con equipos de salud conductual para proporcionar apoyo en materia de salud mental, intervención en casos de crisis y respuesta relacionada con traumas, según ha declarado un portavoz la alcaldía (aunque Watts, dijo que esto solo estará disponible para las familias en el hotel The Row).

“Seguimos preocupados por la falta de gestión de casos, de servicios reales de gestión de casos que la gente necesita para conectarse con los recursos, así como de servicios legales”, dijo Watts.

La administración del presidente Donald Trump ha intensificado la aplicación de las leyes de inmigración en los últimos meses, ordenando a los agentes que detengan a las personas que se presentan ante los tribunales para audiencias rutinarias de casos de inmigración y acelerando sus deportaciones. Muchos no tienen abogados.

Para los migrantes que se encuentran en refugios, la alcaldía dijo que utilizará los contactos de la Oficina del Alcalde para Asuntos del Inmigrante (MOIA por sus siglas en inglés) con grupos de asistencia jurídica comunitarios. Las personas pueden llamar directamente a la línea de asistencia jurídica de MOIA al 800-354-0365 (abierta de lunes a viernes, de 9:00 a 6:00) para recibir ayuda.

Según el Homeless Shelter Tracker de City Limits (que rastrea la población en refugios de la ciudad), la mayoría de los migrantes y solicitantes de asilo ya se encontraban en centros gestionados por el DHS en abril. 

Las personas siguen estando sujetos a los controvertidos plazos de 30 y 60 días de estadía en los refugios. La Coalition for the Homeless dijo que los plazos siguen vigentes para todos los migrantes que se encuentran en refugios que no pertenecen al DHS y para los migrantes adultos solteros y familias adultas que se encuentran en refugios del DHS. 

Sin embargo, cuando expira su plazo, ya no están obligados a volver a los centros de acogida para solicitar más tiempo, sino que pueden solicitar una prórroga en el refugio en el que se encuentran, y deberían obtenerla, según Legal Aid y la Coalition.

Los defensores han criticado la política de plazos de permanencia en los refugios por considerar que perturba la vida de los migrantes, especialmente la de las familias con niños, que se ven obligadas a mudarse cada vez que expira el plazo de su estancia. 

“Esto obstaculiza por completo los servicios a los que tienen acceso, por no hablar de que las familias tienen que mudarse a diferentes refugios y los niños tienen que cambiar de colegio”, afirma Caroline Schwab, organizadora vecinal de Open Hearts Initiative, una organización de defensa que apoya a las personas que viven en refugios. “Es realmente perturbador y dificulta mucho que las familias alcancen la estabilidad mientras tratan de resolver su situación aquí”.

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For those who like to glimpse hockey’s future, Friday night’s opening round of the NHL Draft is about as exciting as it gets. But with no first-round pick in his possession, Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin is planning for something different as the first 32 NHL prospects have their names added to the draft board in Los Angeles.

“Boring,” he said, of the team’s current plans to watch, not participate in, the opening round. “We follow, and if an opportunity presents itself to get into the first round, we will do it. But if it doesn’t, we won’t. We’re not worried about it.”

In late November of last season, Guerin shipped the team’s 2025 first-round pick and a few players to Columbus and got defense prospect David Jiricek in return. Jiricek, who is huge, young and a former Top 10 pick, got into just six games for the Wild —registering a goal and assist — and missed the last month of the season because of an abdominal injury. But Guerin has no qualms about missing Friday’s first round in order to get Jiricek in green and red.

“We feel that we already picked in getting David Jiricek,” Guerin said. “He was a very high pick, so we’re comfortable where we are.”

Outside interest in Rossi

After getting a fourth-round pick for Freddy Gaudreau in a trade with Seattle on Thursday, the Wild have five picks spread across Rounds 2-7, which begin Saturday morning. That could change, as teams commonly make trades while the draft is happening.

For example, former Wild first-rounder Marco Rossi is coming off the best offensive year of his career and a restricted free agent. After playing a top-line role during the team’s injury-ravaged regular season, Rossi was placed on the fourth line in the playoffs.

While he confessed to being irked by the perceived demotion, Rossi scored a pair of playoff goals and played the role that was asked of him. But the perception has been that the Wild are looking to move him, with Guerin seeking a plug-and-play NHLer, rather than a draft pick, for the diminutive Austrian.

On Thursday, Guerin pushed back on the idea that he’s eager to offload Rossi.

“We like Marco. Marco’s a good player,” Guerin said. “He had a good season, he’s a good teammate. There is this funny narrative out there that we don’t like him. That’s not the case.”

Having said all that, Guerin admitted that he has spoken to other teams about Rossi.

“Yeah, people have called,” he said. “But like I said, I’m not rushing this kid out of town, that’s for damn sure.”

Money to spend, carefully

Because he bought out the contracts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter in the summer of 2021, Guerin lost a combined $14.7 million in salary cap space the past two seasons. That changes this year, as the buyout penalties slim down to a $1 million apiece for the former franchise cornerstones. And with the cap rising this season, Guerin finally has some real money to spend.

Guerin acknowledged that signing known commodities is simpler than assessing talent in the draft or making a trade, but he pledged discipline in investing Wild owner Craig Leipold’s money.

“It’s always easier just to go out and sign guys, but that’s not really the approach you want to have,” he said. “That’s kind of where you get yourself in trouble. It’s gotta be calculated, thought-out decisions. Try to get good value for the people that you’re signing. I’ve made mistakes, and I’ll make more, but I’m trying to limit them. We don’t want to get into contracts that we really regret.”

While the team’s primary focus is on acquiring forwards, with a defensive corps that Guerin has said is pretty well set, he added that he expects to find a goaltender. The depth among the Wild’s puck-stoppers is lighter with the retirement of Marc-Andre Fleury, and while they expect Filip Gustavsson and Jesper Wallstedt to be the team’s tandem in 2025-26, they are looking to add another option in the crease.

Kaprizov is top priority

Guerin also talked about star forward Kirill Kaprizov, who will be an unrestricted free agent after this season unless the Wild can sign him to a contract during the Wild’s one-year window of exclusive negotiation rights, That starts when free agency officially opens July 1. Guerin and Leipold have said that securing Kaprizov’s future in Minnesota is their top priority, with the owner vowing that no team will offer the high-scoring Russian more money or more years.

NHL-watchers have predicted that Kaprizov, 28, is coming off a season where he missed half the Wild’s games due to injury. But still posted a career-best 1.4 points per game average, and could command $15 million per year or more, up from the $9 million the Wild are currently paying him annually.

“We’ve talked. We don’t have to sign him on July 1. We can. I don’t see that happening, but you never know,” Guerin said. “We’d like to get it done as soon as we can. I’d love to do that. But you know, these things take time.”

And Guerin, as it currently stands, will have some time on his hands Friday night.

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Nearly every Windows user has had a run in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life. Now, after more than 40-years of being set against a very recognizable blue, the updated error message will soon be displayed across a black background.

The changes to the notorious error screen come as part of broader efforts by Microsoft to improve the resiliency of the Windows operating system in the wake of last year’s CrowdStrike incident, which crashed millions of Windows machines worldwide.

“Now it’s easier than ever to navigate unexpected restarts and recover faster,” Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft wrote in a Wednesday announcement.

As part of that effort, Microsoft says it’s “streamlining” what users experience when encountering “unexpected restarts” that cause disruptions. And that means a makeover to the infamous error screen.

Beyond the now-black background, Windows’ new “screen of death” has a slightly shorter message. It’s also no longer accompanied by a frowning face — and instead shows a percentage completed for the restart process.

Microsoft says this “simplified” user interface for unexpected restarts will be available later this summer on all of its Windows 11 (version 24H2) devices.

And for PCs that may not restart successfully, Microsoft on Wednesday also said it’s adding a “quick machine recovery” mechanism. The will be particularly useful for during a widespread outage, the tech giant noted, as Microsoft “can broadly deploy targeted remediations” and automate fixes with this new mechanism “without requiring complex manual intervention from IT.”

Microsoft said this quick machine recovery will also be “generally available” later this summer on Window 11 — with additional capabilities set to launch later in the year.

By REBECCA SANTANA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the United States to potentially offer refuge to people from other countries who otherwise would seek asylum in the United States, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday at the conclusion of her Central America trip.

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The agreements expand the Trump administration’s efforts to provide the U.S. government flexibility in returning migrants not only to their own countries, but also to third countries as it attempts to ramp up deportations.

Noem described it as a way to offer asylum-seekers options other than coming to the United States. She said the agreements had been in the works for months, with the U.S. government applying pressure on Honduras and Guatemala to get them done.

“Honduras and now Guatemala after today will be countries that will take those individuals and give them refugee status as well,” Noem said. “We’ve never believed that the United States should be the only option, that the guarantee for a refugee is that they go somewhere to be safe and to be protected from whatever threat they face in their country. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the United States.”

During U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, the U.S. signed such accords called safe-third country agreements with Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. They effectively allowed the U.S. to declare some asylum seekers ineligible to apply for U.S. protection and permitted the U.S. government to send them to those countries deemed “safe.”

The U.S. has had such an agreement with Canada since 2002.

The practical challenge was that all three Central American countries at the time were seeing large numbers of their own citizens head to the U.S. to escape violence and a lack of economic opportunity. They also had extremely under-resourced asylum systems.

In February, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed deals with El Salvador and Guatemala that allowed the U.S. to send migrants from other nations there. But in Guatemala’s case it was to only be a point of transit for migrants who would then return to their homelands, not to apply for asylum there. And in El Salvador, it was broader, allowing the U.S. to send migrants to be imprisoned there.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that Mexico would not sign a third safe country agreement, but at the same time Mexico has accepted more than 5,000 migrants from other countries deported from the U.S. since Trump took office. She said Mexico accepted them for humanitarian reasons and helped them return to their home countries.

The U.S. also has agreements with Panama and Costa Rica to take migrants from other countries though so far the numbers sent have been relatively small. The Trump administration sent 299 to Panama in February and fewer than 200 to Costa Rica.

The agreements give U.S. authorities options, especially for migrants from countries where it is not easy for the U.S. to return them directly.

Sherman reported from Mexico City.