NYC migrant crisis: Asylum seekers moved from school gym in Brooklyn amid protests and backlash
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He and Tillis are joined by Republican Sens. John Boozman of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming introducing the Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act. However, the National Instant Criminal Background Check system isn’t required to let immigration authorities know if one of those 14.8 million is an applicant and in America. (The Center Square) – Nearly 15 million people living in or entering the country illegally are on an FBI list prohibiting purchase of firearms. Enraged parents told the New York Post that the move was "disgusting" and "horrible." Julia discussed how the day went as students logged onto Zoom without teachers showing up.
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"Almost 50% of those hotel rooms are being taken up by migrant asylum seekers, that we're paying for," Adams said. "So instead of money coming from people who are visiting us and spending and our tourism and our Broadway plays, instead of them using those hotels, we are using those hotels." Mr. Adams said that housing migrants at hotels had broader implications for the city, beyond just the cost of putting them up.
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“I’m very suspicious of a plan of temporary timing when, as parents, we were told with less than 24 hours [notice],” the parent said. The city Department of Education oversees 1,300 buildings with 130 million square feet of floor space throughout the five boroughs. He noted the outcry when migrants were temporarily placed in the gym at PS 188 in Coney Island. Gov. Kathy Hochul has said that she would ask the State Legislature to allocate $1 billion in the next budget to help the city. The state has already given $1 billion, she said, and is paying for the new tent shelter on Randall’s Island.
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The arrival of migrants at the MS 577 and PS 17 campus essentially means kids will now be “trapped inside” for the foreseeable future because the gym backs onto the outdoor playground, according to some parents. As of Monday, cots had already been set up inside the MS 577 and PS 17 gym as city officials put finishing touches on the new migrant site. Protesting parents and students said their conversations with school officials at the meeting did little to quell their safety concerns for students and asylum seekers.
U.S. lawmakers have long worried that the Chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda.
“We fear, especially with more inclement weather expected this winter, that this is only a foreshadow of more problems to come, and we again urge the City to cease placing families with children at this facility,” the groups said. The advocacy groups questioned whether the move would be “traumatic” and “disruptive” for the migrant families. Floyd Bennett Field, along the shore of Jamaica Bay, was used for emergency relief during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, including housing 2,000 troops, according to the National Park Service. Students at James Madison High School in Brooklyn were informed Tuesday that classes would be conducted virtually on Wednesday because of the school's use as a “temporary overnight respite center." The criticism included the city's continued use of the tent shelter on a remote, abandoned airfield in an area of Brooklyn that is at risk of coastal flooding from storms. “The NYPD, Emergency Services Unit and school administration have conducted a thorough safety check of the entire building, and our custodial staff has been hard at work deep cleaning for the return of our students tomorrow,” Cohen said.
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Last fall, the city’s homeless shelter population hit a record. “We received more than 4,200 asylum seekers last week alone and continue to receive hundreds of asylum seekers every day. We are opening emergency shelters and respite centers daily, but we are out of space.
But some advocates for the homeless say the private quarters that hotel rooms provide are a better choice than the barracks-style accommodations the city usually provides. The Watson Hotel on West 57th Street, which used to receive rave reviews for its rooftop pool and proximity to Central Park, is now being used to house migrant families. That changed as thousands of migrants began arriving by bus last year. "They really didn't tell the parents anything until the kids came home and said something," one parent told News 4. “This will agitate local residents, disrupt the entire school environment, and place a tremendous burden on our families, students, school administrators and staff,” she said. New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov said the city’s decision was “both unacceptable and was entirely foreseeable," because of the airfield's vulnerabilities to weather.
And they say, let’s come up with a law that works where all the other ones have failed and actually make TikTok answer to its Chinese connections once and for all. What this law really does is it puts the future of this hugely popular app with 170 million American users into question. City Hall claimed the costs to combat the migrant crisis could hit $10 billion through the next fiscal year. Last August, the Adams administration even opened a shelter at the popular McCarren Park located on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint border.
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“The city’s handling of the migrant situation has been a complete disaster,’’ she said. Why would I bring my child to a school where there is grown adult men in their gym? You won’t let a stranger come into the school with no ID, but you’ll let them live in your school gym?
More than 67,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the crisis began. Of those, 41,500 people are currently being cared for by the city, Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor for health and human services, said at a news conference on Wednesday. A handful of school gyms, largely in Brooklyn, are already being outfitted with cots, and at least one has already opened its doors to migrants.
“I don’t trust the mayor,” Sheldon Austin, PS 172’s PTA co-president, raged to The Post, adding Hizzoner should have communicated the gym shelter plan much earlier. Adams’ claim of “potential locations” comes after at least 75 migrants were temporarily held at PS 188 in Coney Island on Sunday and Tuesday’s pre-dawn drop-off of 10 others at MS 577/PS 17 in Williamsburg. About 4,200 migrants arrived in the Big Apple last week, and another 15 buses are expected this weekend. City leaders announced "Operation Open Arms" on Friday, an effort to expedite the process of getting those kids into schools, and assist with needs like transportation, food and clothing.
In Westchester, three buses of about 40 adults with young children arrived at the Ramada in Yonkers last night. In Orange County, two hotels in Newburgh accepted some migrants, however, a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the city Tuesday that prevents the mayor's office from sending more migrants. The city has also placed migrants on buses bound for northern suburbs, prompting anger and lawsuits from upstate officials. On Tuesday, Orange County was granted a temporary injunction blocking NYC from sending any more asylum seekers there, at least for the time being. More than 100 hotels have agreed to convert into emergency shelters for migrant families and individuals who have flooded the city from the southern border — with the government footing the bill for the rooms.
And the legal experts that I’ve spoken with say this is a really big and sticky area of the law, and it’s a huge case. And they really think that this will go to the Supreme Court, regardless of who wins in the first round of this. TikTok has pushed back really forcefully against these accusations. They said that Gallup polls show that young people view Israel differently than older generations. They say that they’re not the ones influencing what people post, that the hashtags and the videos are a reflection of the user base and nothing that they’re doing to influence.
A group of migrants from Venezuela watched the protest from a shelter across the street. One, María Briseño, 38, said she understood why parents were upset. Migrants have come in a variety of ways, some with tickets they purchased themselves or with the help of nonprofits, some on buses chartered by other American cities or the state of Texas, and in recent weeks, more are coming via airplane.
The migrant crisis has been a boon for Big Apple hotels still hurting from the loss of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the shelter system bursting at the seams, the city has gotten creative in finding housing for the influx of migrants. Hotel Le Jolie was converted into a shelter for migrant families sometime last year, on a temporary basis. A local Democratic assemblywoman, whose daughter also attends the school, told Fox News that the Biden administration needs to quickly close the border before the crisis gets even worse. "Why does James Madison or any other school, for example, have to bear the burden of the city's migrant crisis?," asked Jayne, who was joined by her daughter, Julia, Thursday.
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