NYC: Migrants Demand ‘Permanent Homes,’ Refuse to Leave Upscale Manhattan Hotel
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New York City— Illegal immigrants who were given a free stay at the high-end Watson Hotel in Manhattan are being evicted and relocated to a temporary shelter in Brooklyn; there’s just one problem — they refuse to leave.
Months ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent bus-loads of illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities around the country in an effort to not only relieve overrun border towns, but to also show pro-illegal immigration states the humanitarian crisis caused by open borders. New York City Mayor Eric Adams estimates more than 42,000 migrants have arrived in the city since last spring, while millions have entered into border states over the past two years, stretching community resources thin.
“This weekend, we began the process of moving single adult men from the Watson Hotel to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, as we transition the hotel to meet the large number of asylum-seeking families with children.”
“More than 42,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City since last spring, and we continue to surpass our moral obligations as we provide asylum seekers with shelter, food, health care, education, and a host of other services.”
Statement by NYC Mayor Eric Adams
Though the new shelter constructed by Mayor Adams offered the same resources and services that the single male migrants had been receiving free of charge at the hotel, many refused to leave, even to make room for families with young children. Police officers were called to monitor the hotel at 10 p.m. Sunday night as a large group of migrants and activists camped just outside the Watson’s lobby. Activists provided the men standing their ground with food and water while they constructed makeshift tents and signage reading (translated) “permanent homes, cancel rent!” and “we need housing to sleep, we need help please.”
It seems that these men don’t simply want a free and safe place to sleep, food to eat, and clean water to drink, as they would be provided that and more at the new shelter, they prefer to be given such luxuries at an upscale hotel.
City officials also provided free transportation from the Watson Hotel to the new shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, but only a small number of those gathered outside the hotel chose to move to the next location.
The sanctuary city has done more to support the noncitizen migrants to prevent any bad-press than they are willing to do to protect the taxpaying residents from violent crime in the metropolis.
Though sending immigrants who cross illegally further into the interior of the nation cannot be a permanent solution, however it has made its intended point, and showcased to the country what border states deal with on a daily basis.
