The city of Hialeah plans to request federal help to face the massive arrival of Cuban, Venezuelan, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants seeking settlement in the most Hispanic city in the United States.
The city government held the Second Workshop on Immigration to address the issue, after an estimated number of more than 80 thousand Cubans arrived in the city in the last two years, he cited.America TeVé.
The mayor of Hialeah, Esteban Bovo, stated that 75% of the Cuban immigrants who arrived in the last two years went to Hialeah, which constitutes a greater impact than Mariel, when 150 thousand people entered the country.
He clarifies that the workshops are not an anti-immigrant measure, but are done to provide efficient services to newcomers.
"The workshops seek to determine the real number of people who are arriving, and the impact on services, schools and property values. It is not something anti-immigrant, but a way of knowing how to support that community that is arriving. We have We have to have the resources to see if we can ask the federal government for help," Bovo explained.
For his part, Roberto Alonso, member of theMiami-Dade School Board, said that in the last three years more than 50 thousand students have entered the district.
"In 2022-2023, 22 thousand new students arrived in the county. In the course of 2023-2024, until March 7, 17 thousand new students have been received, and more than 54 thousand in the last three years," he stressed.
He states that of them, more than 10,000 enrolled in Hialeah schools.
The majority were children of "Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans," he noted.
Authorities recently explained thatmass immigration Not only has it generated a real estate crisis in the city, with higher rents and a greater number of mobile homes, but it has also impacted the educational system due to the massive arrival of school-age children.
"We have seen a growth in alternative housing that cannot be accepted in the city, I am obviously referring to mobile homes," Bovo commented in the previous workshop.
He said that the daily tasks of public officials have also skyrocketed.
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