Migrants Camp in City Streets as Biden’s Shelters Overflow and Gang Violence Grows; It Begins… NYC Sends All Migrants to Poor Neighborhoods
Migrants Camp in City Streets as Biden’s Shelters Overflow and Gang Violence Grows:
President Joe Biden’s flood of poor migrants is overflowing taxpayer-funded shelters and streaming into city streets and parks, causing alarm among voters, families, and city officials alike.
“It’s a question on everybody’s mind,” said New York-based Dave Giffen, the executive director of the activist non-governmental organization, Coalition for the Homeless. “There’s unquestionably more people sleeping in public spaces now.”
As the number of migrants continues to grow in the Big Apple, authorities are beginning to become concerned over the number of border crossers who are choosing to live outside in tents instead of going into the city’s shelter system.
One such camp has sprung up in Randall’s Island where literally hundreds of tents are routinely pitched by illegal aliens. Another outdoor camp has sprung up under a highway overpass in Brooklyn. But there are many more such encampments, the New York Times recently reported.
With the city already struggling to house some 65,000 migrants, a major factor spurring migrants to camp outside in tents is that they feel unsafe in the massive shelters arranged by city officials. Many migrants in these open-air encampments told the paper that there is no order or safety inside the buildings the city has refashioned into shelters and gangs, drugs, unruly behavior, and human trafficking is rife inside the shelters the city runs. Ultimately, they told the Times they feel safer outside in tents.
Actual citizens have complained about these conditions for months. And not just in New York, but in cities including Denver, Chicago and Boston, as well. Indeed, nearly everywhere there are migrant shelters, rising crime rates follow.
As to New York City, officials made a change to the long-standing “right to shelter” rules by placing a 60-day limit to the requirement to give shelter to homeless people.
However, despite the legalese of the updated rules, few have been evicted from city shelters because officials keep granting extensions to every migrant that applies for one. And many who actually were evicted simply re-applied at other shelters where their time limit clock starts ticking all over again.
But it is the number who are now opting to sleep in the streets and avoid the shelters altogether that is worrying city officials.
“That’s not OK,” said Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor leading New York’s migrant response. “We’re not trying to be heavy-handed, but if you’ve had your time, you’ve had your case management, and you have to leave, you have to really move on.”
But instead of moving on, many are just moving outdoors. —>READ MORE HERE
It Begins… NYC Sends All Migrants to Poor Neighborhoods:
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