95-year-old veteran kicked out of nursing home to make way for migrant housing, lawmakers say | Fox News
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Korean war vet says he was kicked out of nursing home to make way for migrants
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., held a press conference opposing a Staten Island assisted living home becoming a facility to help NYC's overflow of undocumented migrants. (WNYW)
A 95-year-old Korean War veteran said he was given less than two months' notice to figure out where he was going to live after the nursing home he resided in was sold to become a facility for undocumented migrants.
Veteran Frank Tammaro joined Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., a vocal critic of New York City's handling of the migrant crisis, at a press conference on Monday to discuss the reported deal.
"The thing I'm annoyed about is how they did it, it was very disgraceful what they did to the people in Island Shores," Tammaro said, referencing the assisted living facility he was in.
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Korean War veteran Frank Tammaro said he was given little notice to leave the Island Shores nursing home.(WNYW)
He said that Island Shores "gave us time to get out," but not enough time to protest the decision to boot residents - which Tammaro said he tried to do.
"Then one day there was a notice on the board. I think that gave us a month and a half to find out where we were going to go," he said. "I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb because I'm not that fast."
"If it wasn't for my daughter, they would've been on the curb. That was it. I said, 'No, no, no, no, you're not moving me,' and they said, 'Yes, yes, yes we are.' Everything was done behind closed doors - we didn't have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because there wasn't enough time."
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Hundreds of migrants are seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023.(Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
New York City Councilman David Carr confirmed to local outlet SI Live that he was informed by the city's Department of Social Services that the migrant facility would open there this week. Fox News Digital reached out to the Department of Social Services for confirmation but did not immediately hear back on Tuesday.
Fox News Digital's attempt to contact a number associated with Island Shores Senior Residence could not be completed. The facility is listed as "permanently closed" online.
Malliotakis said the reported deal was "showing our country and our city's priorities are backwards."
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Residents of the Arrochar neighborhood and supporters protest New York City plans to house migrants in a closed Catholic school, St John Villa Academy, Sept. 5, 2023, on Staten Island.(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
"My blood pressure went through the roof when I found out Homes for the Homeless cut a deal with the City of New York to turn Island Shores into a migrant shelter," the GOP lawmaker said.
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"Our tax dollars as citizens of New York should not be utilized to house citizens of other countries, especially at the expense of our senior citizens and veterans who put their lives on the line, paid taxes their whole lives and built our communities."
Tens of thousands of migrants have come to New York City over the last year, buckling the city's infrastructure and overwhelming housing officials.
A judge sided with Staten Island lawmakers on Tuesday in ruling that a migrant facility in the borough, converted from a former Catholic school, should close.
Elizabeth Elkind is a reporter for Fox News Digital focused on Congress as well as the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and politics. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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Migrants over elderly, veterans, our own homeless. WTF is up America?
The American left. They are up and in control. They didn't campaign on doing this shit. They got Biden elected and they went out and fulfilled every wet dream they ever had.
Party over country, the elderly and Military in particular vote republican, democrats are just investing in future votes with nothing to lose from those they are displacing.
Illegal aliens.
I stand corrected LMAO
And in true Democrat fashion, US Citizens get screwed while those here illegally are given everything.
Curious to hear what our contingent of hard core left pro immigrant have to say on this. I doubt there will be very much if anything at all.
You know all we will see is, as one Ultracrepidarian from the left spams all over the place, "PD&D".
Pretty much.
While I feel for the guy and all the other residents, the home was not owned by the government but privately owned and was sold. IMO this has nothing to do with politics but with the pursuit of quick money.
I am sure you are right. After all, now GovCo will be paying the new owners for housing the illegals and God only knows how much they're are going to rip off from them.
Thanks Biden
Unconscionable!
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