New York Has ‘10,000 Openings’ for Asylum-Seekers in State Workforce: Governor

The state has identified vacancies in engineering support, equipment service, and food services.

Dozens of recently arrived illegal immigrants camp outside of New York's Roosevelt Hotel, which has been made into a reception center, as they try to secure temporary housing in New York City on Aug. 1, 2023. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking to attract illegal immigrants to work in the state workforce, claiming she has 10,000 unfilled jobs available to employ the individuals.

“Hotel owners and restaurant owners [have come] to me: ‘Can you send some of the migrants up here? We need them.’ I hear this in every corner of the state,” Ms. Hochul said during a news conference last week. “I have 10,000 openings in the New York State workforce. From our operations to SUNY (State University of New York), I have 10,000 openings.”