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Immigrants arriving in the Big Apple are now transported to Canada on taxpayer-funded buses to flee “drugs, crime and the homeless” in New York City.
New York City has been a refuge for migrants since they began arriving by the hundreds fleeing countries like Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic in search of a better life.
Many of those illegal immigrants lived at The Watson Hotel, located at 57th and Tenth Avenue, in taxpayer-funded hotel rooms that cost as much as $450 a night for the past month, until they were vacated last weekend and moved to one of the humanitarian centers of the city. Emergency Center, a facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
But, it has been revealed that many of the immigrants have been receiving ‘free tickets’ to Canada that will give them a better life and better opportunities and in a country where drug abuse and homelessness are not so prevalent.
One of the Venezuelan migrants who slept outside the Watson Hotel told DailyMail.com that he knows that some of the migrants, who are currently staying at the Red Hook facility, are going to Canada. “They don’t want to stay in New York…they want to go to Canada because they’ll get more help there.”
Migrants boarding the bus to the Red Hook facility in Brooklyn last week
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been desperately trying to solve the city’s immigration crisis.
He also said that others are finding other means of housing, because, he said, ‘nobody likes that place[Red Hook]…It’s disgusting.’
But, some of their challenges include the lack of work permits, the lack of immigration documents that make it difficult for most to find work here in the Big Apple.
Ivan, 33 from Venezuela, told DailyMail.com he was horrified by the rampant drug use that was going on in the shelters and all the homeless people.
A Venezuelan migrant told the New York Post that “the military gave me and my family free bus tickets.”
When contacted by DailyMail.com the mayor’s immigration office, they were not available for comment.
But in December, New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded with the White House for help with the immigration crisis.
“I’m extremely frustrated,” Adams said in December.
Since 2022, there have been nearly 21,000 migrants who have been transported by bus to New York.
But the mayor’s press office has simultaneously tried to portray itself as pro-immigrant, with Adam’s press secretary sharing that ‘asylum seekers also receive free round-trip tickets on a New York City ferry every day. , foxnews informed.
Many of the migrants, mostly men from Venezuela, are seen boarding a bus to the Red Hook facility that is normally used as a terminal for cruise ships.
Yellow school buses transported immigrants to the HERRC facility in Brooklyn.
Dozens of migrants slept outside the Watson Hotel for days after they were removed from the hotel to make room for migrant families. The men were bundled up in sleeping bags, blankets to keep warm in sub-zero temperatures. Many of the items seen here were donated
As migrants pour into New York City, National Guard soldiers are stationed at the Port Authority bus terminal to hand out free tickets for buses heading upstate to the Canadian border.
City council sources said the move was part of a “ticketing reissuance” plan to help immigrants get to Canada, according to The New York Post, where President Justin Trudeau has been outspoken about building a shelter for migrants. needy.
Some of the migrants who accepted the National Guard’s offer said The charge they were heading to Canada because they felt it would be more welcoming to them and provide them with better opportunities than the United States.
The news comes as a large group of immigrants were publicly kicked out of a luxurious downtown hotel they had been staying at, and Mayor Eric Adams has been desperately trying to convince city shelters to be an option. safe and hospitable.
The New York City Council has been paying various organizations to help with its ticket reissuance program, according to The Post.
One such organization was Catholic Charities Community Services, which said it had helped “thousands of new immigrants” move out of New York City.
A spokesperson for Catholic Charities said some of those immigrants “reported their desire to move to other cities, and Catholic Charities provided some help with their travel expenses.”