Katie Daviscourt Seattle WA Nov 15, 2023
"They say it's not suitable there. There is nothing there…not even a television."
Illegal immigrants are warning each
other to stay away from New
York's new "tent city" for migrants which is located at Floyd
Bennett Field. They say the controversial Brooklyn shelter is "crazy"
and "not suitable for children" which has prompted families to either
flee the site and/or refuse to be transported there.
This has created a significant problem because this site, which is made up of
four congregate sleeping dorms that can hold up to 2,000 people, is currently
the only shelter the city is offering to illegal immigrants with children, according
to the New York Post.
A Venezuelan couple who arrived in the Big Apple with their three small
children a few days ago said that they refused to be transported to Floyd
Bennett after another illegal migrant family had warned them about the
facility.
"They said they were going to send us to Floyd Bennett Field
yesterday," the 23-year-old father told the Post.
"We did not go because we already know the situation over there. We saw
people returned with children. They say it's not suitable there. There is
nothing there…not even a television," he said.
The Venezuelan family had been sleeping on chairs at The Roosevelt Hotel
in Midtown Manhattan before they were told to relocate to Floyd Bennet Field.
But since they refused the offer, the parents say that they might have to sleep
on the streets with their children ages 5, 3, and 10 months.
"They told me that if we didn't take that address…they couldn't help us and we were going to stay on the streets or go to another city in the United States," the father told the outlet.
The mother explained that the City
won't help them since they rejected the offer. The family was bused to the Big
Apple after illegally entering the US through Texas.
"We arrived four days ago and they sent us to the tent and we rejected it
so they don't want to help. They don't want to show us anywhere else," she
said in tears.
The father said he would rather sleep in the hotel lobby and added, "Right
now we have nowhere to stay. Sleeping in the chair is the safest thing I see.
We are going to be on the streets with the babies."
A City Hall spokesperson told NYP
that the Floyd Bennett site is the shelter that is being offered to migrant
families with children.
"There's a still a place for them at Floyd Bennett, if they go to the
Roosevelt, they will given a place a Floyd Bennett," they said.
Mayor
Adams commented on the controversial Brooklyn shelter and explained that
it's the only option to aid the illegal immigration crisis that has plagued the
City.
"It would be a plus if we can eventually reach a level where we will be self-sustaining
and we don't need Floyd Bennett," he said, according to the outlet.
"But right now, I don't see that happening anytime in the immediate
future."
Floyd Bennett is among the more than 200 shelters established by the city to
accommodate the ceaseless
stream of illegal immigrants who have descended upon the Big Apple since
the issue involving asylum seekers intensified in the spring of 2022. Some
10,000 people flood into the city each month due to Biden's border crisis.
As to the latest calculation by City Hall, approximately 139,500 illegal
immigrants have passed through New York City since the spring of 2022, with
more than 65,600 migrants remaining in the city's custody, according to the New
York Post.
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