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New York City says more than 93,000 asylum seekers came through the intake system last Spring

Dominic Yeatman – Daily Mail Nov 30, 2023

  • More than 200 beds at the Staten Island nursing home were turned over to migrants arriving in New York City
  • Elderly residents were left scrambling to find new homes after being given six weeks notice to get out 
  • Three thousand migrants are now being housed at the Roosevelt Hotel 

A Korean War veteran feared he would be left ‘on the curb’ after he was ordered out of his Staten Island nursing home to make way for the migrants overwhelming New York City.

Frank Tammaro, 95, was given six weeks to get out of the Island Shores Senior Residence when it was sold to city authorities last month.

Ten people were arrested amid furious protests when the first migrants were bussed to the facility last week after the last of the elderly residents were thrown out.

‘The thing I’m annoyed about is how they did it, it was very disgraceful what they did to the people in Island Shores,’ Tammaro told a press conference.

‘One day there was a notice on the board, I think that gave us a month and a half to find out where we were going to go.

‘I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb because I’m not that fast.

‘If it wasn’t for my daughter, they would’ve been on the curb. That was it.

‘I said, ‘No, no, no, no, you’re not moving me,’ and they said, ‘Yes, yes, yes we are.’

‘Everything was done behind closed doors – we didn’t have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because there wasn’t enough time.’

More than 113,000 undocumented migrants have arrived in New York after crossing the southern border since last year in a crisis mayor Eric Adams has warned will ‘destroy the city’.

And another 233,000 were recorded crossing the southern border in August.

And around 100 hotels have been turned into shelters including the The Paul Hotel, The Paramount Hotel, and the Roosevelt which alone is now housing some 3,000.

The mayor is planning to spend an extra $1billion on hotel accommodation for migrants over three years, it emerged yesterday, with the city’s public services facing swingeing cuts to pay for it.

‘The migrant crisis has evolved into a financial boondoggle, with quietly extended contracts fattening the pockets of a few at the taxpayer’s expense,’ said Democratic Queens Councilman Robert Holden.

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