Mayor Eric Adams of New York is facing serious challenges due to the immigration policy issues under the current regime. Over the past few months, several thousand undocumented immigrants have arrived in NYC, and as a result, the city’s taxpayers have had to spend millions to provide for them. These individuals have been housed in a minimum of 14 different hotels, at no cost to them.
Felipe Rodriguez, a whistleblower who has been an employee at the Row Hotel since 2017, shared his concerns with Fox News, “The chaos that we see at the Row today is compiled by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana, consuming drugs, and domestic violence, uh, people having sex in the stairs, young people, teenagers, they use the fire exit stairs to go in there and do that they do.”
“We have people actually trying to act like the hotel is theirs and we have no rights. The form in which they keep their rooms is horrendous. They don’t clean it, they don’t fold their clothes. It’s piles and piles, they’re hoarding clothes, they’re hoarding whatever they can hoard.”
“There’s no accountability. And when you go into their rooms and say something, the hotel management, especially the GM [general manager] has directed us that we’re not allowed to tell them nothing. They have carte blanche at the Row.”
According to an NBC News correspondent, the city estimates that taking care of undocumented immigrants will cost $4 billion by next year. As Title 42 expired, more and more illegal immigrants were brought to New York via bus. The New York Post reported that a non-profit foundation that helps veterans claimed that twenty homeless and struggling veterans were evicted from upstate hotels to make room for the arriving undocumented immigrants.
According to the report, the hotel staff informed a military veteran and a 24-year-old who had previously served in Afghanistan and required urgent assistance that their accommodation would no longer be available and they would need to locate alternative lodging.
The New York Post reported,
Toney-Finch said 15 of the veterans got the heave-ho from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh about 60 miles north of New York City in Orange County — a new epicenter of Big Apple’s migrant crisis since Mayor Eric Adams began bussing Gotham’s overflow there against local officials’ wishes.
The other five displaced veterans were split between two other local facilities — the Super 8 and Hampton Inn & Suites in Middletown, Toney-Finch said.