Over the weekend, more than 50 illegal migrants, most of them Venezuelan, were camping out in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, awaiting vacancies. The hotel, which had earlier been pressed into service by the city as a temporary shelter, was already full of migrants and the Adams administration had nothing else to offer, aside from some buses parked along the street where some were able to escape the heat and rain.
At one point Saturday night, the crowd attempted to force their way into the hotel, and police had to be called to push them back. Some expressed outrage to reporters that they were not being more generously treated. One, identified as Mohamed Mokhtar, said:
They tell us there is no room. There is going to be like, they’re all full. We have to wait. Maybe two weeks, maybe two days, who knows? They give us the ticket. They said they’re going to call us and they didn’t.
Another man complained, in Spanish: “We’re put on the street. They have to do something to help us.”
Not everyone is having a rotten time in the Big Apple, however. “Danny,” a Venezuelan who is a luckier guest at another NYC hotel, recently told Breitbart News that he has “a clean hotel room, a New York City identification card, free health care and prescription benefits,” all provided by the taxpayers. Although lacking a work authorization or a driver’s license, Danny also has a job at a cleaning company and the use of a company vehicle. He says his accommodations are good: “We have more than 15 Army soldiers [ie, NY National Guardsmen] that help with security and hand out food to us when we get hungry, there is plenty of food available all day and our rooms are cleaned every morning.” In addition, he has free laundry service and cable television. Life is Good.
Danny illegally crossed into the U.S. in May and was soon released by the CBP. After a bus trip from Brownsville to Dallas, he boarded a plane for New York, where he found the hotel shelter he’s still living in. Danny says he was given paperwork by the Border Patrol but no court date. On the Notice to Appear line, his form simply says, “TBD.”
“To be determined” these days is the fate of many. But one thing is certain: Neither Danny nor the millions of newcomers just like him are going anywhere. They’re here to stay in Joe Biden’s America.
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