New Yorkers are beginning to get frustrated over migrants that have been placed in a luxury hotel in New York City by Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
“Ingrates,” the New York Post heard New-Yorkers-in-the-street describe the migrants who refused transfer from the hotel to the Brooklyn center. They have reportedly been enjoying $300-a-night private rooms in Midtown using taxpayer money.
It’s “bulls—,” said Bonfilio Solis, a Mexican immigrant who owns a remodeling business. He told The Post that the migrants were being “very disrespectful.”
The migrants, meanwhile, have been demanding to be set up in “vacant luxury apartments” on Billionaires Row.
Breitbart reported recently that many of the border crossers are refusing to leave the Watson Hotel over claims that the city’s mega-shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal is in poor condition to house them.
“[Adams] could have easily, along with Gov. Hochul, opened up all the vacant luxury apartments,” one protester said. “We are on 57th Street right now. This is Billionaire’s Row. Half of the super towers on this street are empty.”
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that a majority of New York residents agree with the mayor that the 40,000-plus migrants have pushed the city to a breaking point and should be moved upstate.
This comes as the Biden administration continues to struggle with the massive influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico. The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since President Joe Biden announced last year that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reported that nearly 2.4 million migrants were detained at the border for the fiscal year ending in September, surpassing the already-historic number of 1.7 million migrant detainees in 2021.
The numbers are likely to increase should the Biden administration end “Title 42.” The DHS has said repeatedly that it has a six-point plan in place to deal with the imminent influx in population that it anticipates will occur. This includes an increase in resources and manpower, as well as a greater use of alternative authorities more frequently.
