Reports out of NYC suggest that migrants bused into the Big Apple have been walking through the streets of a Staten Island neighborhood asking for food, clothes and work after they were put up in hotels.
The migrants, who are clearly not ready for the winter season, are currently staying in a property in Travis-Chelsea that includes the Staten Island Inn, Holiday Inn, and Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriot, according to the NY Post. One employee even said that the Staten Island Inn was completely booked with migrants.
The illegal immigrants, who knew what they were getting themselves into when they fled their home countries, arrived with very little.
One migrant, Geraldine Silva, told The NY Post outside of the Inn that she arrived there about a week ago after she was bussed from El Paso. The Venezuelan native was wearing only a t-shirt, sweatpants, and flip-flops on a night when temperatures dropped into the 40s.
“We do not have clothing and are not eating well. We need a place to work,” Silva, 31, told reporters.
“We are waiting for clothes,” the mother said, shivering beside a handful of kids and other migrants.
Hotel employees are growing increasingly frustrated and are angry that tens of thousands of migrants have been bused into their city. A Holiday Inn employee said, “[The hotel management] didn’t tell anyone anything. They weren’t taking any reservations … and people were bugging out,” the worker said. “The front desk has to do the dirty work. They had to call them and tell them we are closed. We sold out to the city. I guess the city owns the building.”
“Why do we have 50,000 people when you could have given them to a different state….we are 10 minutes from New Jersey. There is nothing here,” he fumed.
“There is no laundry service here. There is nothing. There is nothing for them to shop for, for them to do their laundry. I have no idea how they are going to do it,” he said about the neighborhood, a middle-class enclave of Staten Island.
According to the NY Post, the sudden influx of migrants has completely overwhelmed local residents, who said the newcomers have been going door-to-door knocking on homes, asking for clothes and other necessities.
Terrence Jones, a Staten Island resident and business owner, said he was caught off guard when some migrants rang his doorbell multiple times.
“They were speaking Spanish. I just said I only speak English. It was like three times,” Jones, 56, told The Post.
He said one person was wrapped up in a blanket.
“They were underdressed – had slippers on, a Red Cross blanket. I thought it was weird.”
Andrew Wilkes, a computer programmer who also lives near the hotels, also received multiple knocks on his door.
He said his wife was looking for any extra clothes she had around their home to donate.
“What gets me is desperate people do desperate things. That’s what worries me,” he added.
“It’s not the right thing to do for the neighborhood, to overload it. Where are they going to go to school? There’s only one school in the neighborhood.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who has repeatedly bragged about his city being a ‘Sanctuary City’ recently declared a state of emergency now that thousands have shown up on his doorstep, Adams has become so overwhelmed by the influx of illegals that he now seems to be walking back ‘sanctuary’ statements when he told the press “NY didn’t ask for this”.
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Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the avalanche of migrants into the Big Apple, calling it “unsustainable.” He warned that the sudden influx is pushing the city’s shelter population to an all-time high and will cost taxpayers $1 billion for housing and social services.
