NYC now using 14 hotels to house migrants amid ongoing surge
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 12 commentsBy: Georgett Roberts (New York Post)
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The ongoing surge of migrants to the Big Apple has forced the city to strike emergency deals with 14 hotels because the shelter system is overloaded amid President Biden's border crisis.
Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro revealed the eye-popping total during a news conference at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, where five buses arrived Thursday carrying migrants relocated by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — matching Wednesday's record number of buses.
Manuel Castro announced more migrants arrived in New York City, increasing concerns of a supply shortage for the new arrivals.Michael Brochstein/SOPA ImagesCity Hall confirmed that 600 families will not be housed at the Row NYC hotel.Matthew McDermottMore than 6,000 migrants found their way to the Big Apple for shelter.AFP via Getty Images/ Yuki Iwamura
City Hall pressed the 14th hotel into service on Thursday, up from 11 about two weeks ago, an official familiar with the matter told The Post.
In another stunning acknowledgment of the city's inability to deal with the situation, Castro said Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have appealed to officials in other states for help housing migrants.
"Unlike Gov. Abbott, our mayor and our governor are showing true leadership by actively coordinating with the White House and federal government and governors across the country and mayors across the country to see how we can work together to address the need to resettle asylum-seekers," he said.
Castro didn't identify any of the city and state leaders who've been contacted and neither City Hall nor Hochul's office responded immediately to requests for comment.
But a source with knowledge of Adams' efforts said he'd reached out to the United States Conference of Mayors for assistance.
Since May, more than 6,000 migrants have sought shelter from the city, including at least 750 on the buses Abbott said he began sending here earlier this month, officials have said.
Abbott's move came after he started relocating migrants to Washington, DC, in April to protest what he calls President Biden's "irresponsible open border policies" and their impact on the Lone Star State.
On Wednesday, workers on one bus were seen scanning barcodes on bracelets worn by the migrants and then cutting them off their wrists as they disembarked, leading city officials to question the purpose.
Castro called out Texas Gov. Abbott for his poor leadership in trying to find arrangements for the influx of asylum seekers. ZUMAPRESS.com/ Chris Rusanowsky
An Abbott spokesperson on Thursday called the bracelets "standard protocol for voluntary transport by the Texas Division of Emergency Management" and said they've "been used during times of natural disasters like hurricanes when needing to transport people to safety."
"This process also helps ensure we are only transporting migrants who have been processed and released by the federal government with federal documentation that allows them to move about the country," press secretary Renae Eze said.
The number of migrants stopped while entering the US from Mexico is on pace to reach a record 2 million-plus by the end of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30.
City Hall has refused to say how much is being spent housing migrants in hotels but a Post analysis this week found the annual cost could top $300 million, based on the average $148 daily room rate it paid under terms of a $139 million contract last year.
Last week, the city said it was seeking to rent 5,000 rooms. On Thursday, City Hall confirmed that it was no longer planning to house some 600 families at the Row NYC hotel near Times Square.
Thursday's buses carried 223 migrants, according to the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.
The city is working on emergency deals with 14 hotels to house the migrants.James Keivom
The passengers included several women carrying infants swaddled in blankets and a heavyset man who had to be helped off a bus and into a bright-yellow wheelchair by an FDNY paramedic.
It was unclear what was ailing the man, who was wearing a cardboard crown but no shoes.
He told a reporter he was from Colombia and gave a thumbs-up sign before being wheeled away.
The man was followed off the bus by a little girl with a long braid who carried a pillow and a stuffed animal, and who appeared to be the youngest of several siblings, including a tall, teenage boy.
Additional reporting by Zach Williams
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There is nothing like living in luxury and nothing is too good for those whom the American left have chosen to replace us. In NYC the mayor has been putting up migrants in swanky hotels. Now the mayor is trying to kick them out but the migrants, who have endless nerve, refuse to go. After all, they've been spoiled by the amenities of having a pool, a gym etc. The mayor has some other form of housing in mind and those who entered the country illegally say NO WAY!
I think Abbott is about the only one showing common sense leadership during this Biden caused fiasco.
If the Federal government doesn't want to get involved, the border states Governors and Mayors don't have many other choices or options.
After all, they didn't ask for these hordes of alleged asylum seekers.
It is sad the border state Governors have to do what the federal government is supposed to do!
Just Rio Valley is getting between 900 and 1,200 illegals a day. And New York is bitching about 6,000? It is time for New York's mayor and governor to take a trip to the Texas southern border and see the complete and utter wreck Brandon has made of border security; and our immigration laws.
Bitching about having to handle a small fraction of the illegals southern border facilities have to face is just inane.
It is amazing, isn't it? A blue city mayor can't handle it. How do the border states deal with an absolute invasion?
Remember when immigration activists used to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau? You never see that anymore. Now the left, via Biden, controls the border. No longer do we have any federal participation in securing the border. There is no border enforcement, and immigration law is ignored. Six million illegal entries during the first two years of the left's rule.
Sucks to declare yourself a sanctuary city then actually have to do something.
It is sickening that this is all a result of the Biden Open Border Policy.
And in this case "doing something" included screwing the tax payers.
All because they wanted to virtue signal and act the idiot.
It was a hotel worker who summed it all up:
"Felipe Rodriguez, an employee at nearby Row NYC, detailed how his once-trendy hotel has spiraled into a migrant "free-for-all" riddled with drugs, sex and violence during "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday. "Chaos, total chaos," Rodriguez said when Ainsley Earhardt asked him about the state of the hotel. "There's no accountability. The city's so-called running the program [and] allows these people to destroy these rooms . There is no daily supervision to show these people that… you don't destroy your hotel. You are only there temporarily. This is not your home."
Evidently they didn't like the sandwiches:
Isn't that everything the left has been telling us doesn't happen?
They do lie a lot...and their lies are weak.
Any minute now we can expect to hear NYC start crying about how their own actions is hurting the tourist industry.