Biden Approves Migrant Camp at NYC Airfield Despite Residents’ Opposition; 2,500 Migrants to Get a Home at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, $20M to Find Jobs: Hochul

Biden Approves Migrant Camp at NYC Airfield Despite Residents’ Opposition:

President Joe Biden is ignoring concerns from Brooklyn, New York, residents and has greenlit a plan that will see at least 2,000 single adult male border crossers and illegal aliens housed in a former naval airfield facility — paid for by New Yorkers.

On Tuesday, residents in southeast Brooklyn protested New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) plan to turn Floyd Bennett Field, owned by the federal government, into a massive migrant camp.

The former naval airfield sits along Jamaica Bay and near multiple neighborhoods including Gerritsen Beach, Roxbury, and Breezy Point.

“I live here, I grew up here,” one resident told News 12. “It’s going to make the neighborhood way more dangerous.”

During the protest, former GOP candidate for New York City mayor Curtis Sliwa blamed Biden’s lax enforcement of federal immigration law for the more than 100,000 migrants that have arrived in the city since the spring of last year.

“The people here feel that they have been betrayed,” Sliwa said at the protest. “No transparency whatsoever. It’s like ‘Pay your taxes, shut up, raise your kids, and we’ll tell you what you’re going to do.’ Well, we’ve had enough, no more of the illegal aliens. Enough is enough, this is Joe Biden’s problem.” —>READ MORE HERE

2,500 migrants to get a home at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, $20M to find jobs: Hochul:

The Biden administration has finally agreed to lease Floyd Bennett Airfield in Brooklyn to house 2,500 migrants, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday — adding the state is doling out another $20 million to help asylum seekers find work.

The lease between the feds and the state is being reviewed, contrary to earlier reports that it was a done deal.

Hochul also announced more help to get asylum seekers legal work status. She said the state would give New York City another $20 million so more than 30,000 asylum seekers can file for work permits to get jobs and exit already overflowing shelters.

Word that the former naval air station, housed in the Gateway National Recreation Area, would be available came after the feds rebuked Hochul’s plan to use the 1,300-acre-plus (2-square-mile) venue for emergency shelter.

“This is something that we’ve been hoping for, for many, many months,” Hochul told reporters, referring to the airfield leasing, at a press conference that followed an unrelated event in the Bronx.

“It’s a big step because the answer one month ago was ‘no,’” she added. “I’m viewing this as a significant development by the administration in Washington that we need more help here.”

The governor said she had been on the phone with officials at the White House working on the deal until 11 p.m. Sunday.

The tentative agreement comes after weeks of delays and back-and-forth between her administration and the White House over using the site to provide temporary housing for the recent arrivals, many of whom are seeking asylum from political violence and economic turmoil in Central and South America.—>READ MORE HERE

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