Migrants kicked out of a New York hotel and ordered to go to Brooklyn

By James On Jan 30, 2023

A cruise terminal is likely to be the next stop for immigrants from New York City after they have been blocked at several Big Apple hotels, as some activists say the move is not an adequate solution.

Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will open Monday and will house about 1,000 single adult male immigrants.

The migrants, who have been ferried across the city from a tent shelter on Randall’s Island to various hotels, will head to the terminal starting Monday morning from the Watson Hotel in Midtown, with DailyMail.com cameras capturing some being pressured to board buses for Red Hook on Sunday night.

Only a small number of immigrants opted to get on the buses, and three left the hotel with a total of between 15 and 20 people. That hotel will replace single male immigrants with families currently staying on The Row in Hell’s Kitchen.

A cruise terminal is likely to be the next stop for migrants from New York City as the Big Apple’s humanitarian crisis continues, while some activists say the move is not an adequate solution.

This will not be a permanent home, as the city has promised to close the facility in time for the cruise season to begin in the spring.

The asylum seekers were interviewed on video by reporters on Sunday night, where one complained that the conditions would be inhumane and that there would be a lack of adequate food.

Adams has been upbeat in calling for federal help, which included a rally outside City Hall on Sunday.

Washington has approved $800 million in spending to help the crisis, but it will go to various cities across the country.

Even if it all goes to New York, the city will still spend more money on its own to help immigrants, according to ABC7.

However, Adams boasted on Sunday that migrants will live in better conditions than in other cities.

“People are sleeping on the streets of El Paso,” Adams said at the rally. There sleeping in airports. I talked to my colleague in Chicago, people sleep in the basement of libraries. No family sleeps on our streets.

Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will open Monday and will house about 1,000 single adult male immigrants

Adams has been upbeat in calling for federal help, which included a rally outside City Hall on Sunday.

The migrants, who have been ferried across the city from a tent shelter on Randall’s Island to various hotels, will head to the terminal starting Monday morning from the Watson Hotel in Midtown.

DailyMail.com cameras captured some migrants being pressured to board buses to Red Hook on Sunday night.

These immigrants were staying at The Watson Hotel. Now they are not allowed back

An NYPD officer watches as a migrant boards the bus to RedHook. He pressures immigrants to board buses to Red Hook, where living conditions are said to be poor.

On a mission tonight, asylum seekers are being flown from Manhattan to Red Hook, where they say conditions are inhumane, freezing cold and lacking adequate food. “We are not animals.” pic.twitter.com/YlIYlNLgdF
— Jasmine Garsd Garcia (@JasGarsd) January 30, 2023

He added that there are no plans for the city to stop receiving immigrants, but that they will need additional preparation if the Supreme Court allows Title 42, the pandemic rule that makes it more difficult to seek asylum in the US, to expire.

Activists are not happy with the constant moves and say it is not an adequate solution.

“Now they’re going to be moved into a building that wasn’t designed to live in, that the city will have to prepare for people to sleep in, and only for a short period of time,” Josh Goldfein of the Legal Aid Society. saying.

“We’re going to invest a lot of resources to get this building ready just to be dismantled again, I guess when the cruise ships start coming in again.”

The location is also isolated and far from access to healthcare and job opportunities.

An employee at the mayor’s office talks to a police officer as they try to get migrants to catch a bus to Red Hook.

Immigrants and activists have said that the conditions in the terminal are inhumane.

A policeman talks with some of the migrants who have boarded the bus heading to the terminal

Only a small number of immigrants opted to get on the buses, and three left the hotel with a total of between 15 and 20 people.

Activists are not happy with the constant moves and say it is not an adequate solution.

The location is isolated and far from access to healthcare and job opportunities.

A New York City bus departs for the Brooklyn cruise terminal on Sunday night

“The city has tens of thousands of New Yorkers in shelters who were there before immigrants started arriving and who could move if they had some help,” Goldfein added.

Despite his proclamations Sunday, Adams previously made headlines for saying “there’s no more room” after previously stating the city would always welcome immigrants.

Buses of migrants have been arriving in New York since the fall when Republican governors, primarily Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, began sending asylum seekers across the border to mostly Democratic-leaning cities.

WHAT IS TITLE 42?

The Title 42 border restrictions are a public health order that allowed US authorities to return most migrants, including people seeking asylum from persecution.

They were introduced during the pandemic and are currently set to expire on Wednesday, after several extensions.

But the number of migrants now trying to cross the US-Mexico border is at its highest level in two decades, with even larger numbers expected to arrive once the pandemic-era order is lifted.

Many of them crossed repeatedly because Title 42 carries no legal or criminal consequences.

The authority of Title 42 has been applied unevenly among nationalities.

Mexico has agreed to receive immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico, and a limited number from Cuba and Nicaragua. High costs, strained diplomatic relations and other considerations have made it more difficult to get immigrants from other countries, who must be brought home.

Title 42 is one of two major surviving policies from the Trump era to deter asylum at the border.

The little-used public health order that gives border authorities the ability to quickly remove almost anyone found along the southwest border.

In April, the US Supreme Court heard arguments over whether to allow the administration to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings. That case originated before another judge. Trump appointee in Amarillo, Texas.