Illegal immigrants who crossed the Southern border to enter the United States conducted a protest after authorities scheduled them to relocate from hotel rooms to a migrant shelter in New York City.
On Sunday night, frustrated illegal immigrants refused to leave their free hotel rooms in NYC after the authorities scheduled them to relocate to a migrant shelter in Brooklyn.
Initially, they were placed at the Watson Hotel in Midtown Manhattan while authorities were working to relocate them to a new migrant relief center, the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
However, the relocation caused uproar with migrants, sleeping in the streets to protest.
Although there were some who coordinated with the authorities and left for the new shelter, many refused to leave the Hell’s Kitchen hotel and even rallied outside the building alongside migrant activists.
In a report published by Fox News, it was revealed that “The migrants who were noncompliant in the city’s relocation spent the night outside the hotel and were seen holding their ground into Monday morning.”
NYC: Migrants refuse to leave Watson Hotel for transfer to shelter.
No Joke: Migrants want to stay at the hotel, or have Mayor Adams open luxury apartments that are vacant. pic.twitter.com/Y5gXrIJ8dJ— Carol Clarke (@neverlosetruth) January 30, 2023
In response to the situation, Democrat Mayor Eric Adams released an official statement, convincing the migrants that the “new facilities were hospitable accommodations and noting the dire need of state and government support amid the ongoing migrant crisis that is impacting the Big Apple,” Fox News added.
In the statement, Adams said that “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,” the mayor added.
“The facilities at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will provide the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the scheduled relocations to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal this weekend took place as planned. We remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments,” the city said in a statement.
However, several migrants who went to the new center came back to the hotel and protested, claiming that the center lacks heat and bathroom space.
