NYC Mayor Adams decided to close the unused migrant tent camp on Randalls Island, which remains empty. It was established a month ago and supposed to be occupied by male migrants but was not fully utilized, he announced last Thursday.
NYC Mayor Adams To Close Randalls Island Camp
The expansive infrastructure, which cost city taxpayers at least $650,000 to build, opened on October 19 and was expected to house up to 1,000 single adult male migrants and provide them with various services, reported NY Daily News.
Adams, however, asserted in a comment that the rate at which single adult Latin American males arrived in the city began to slow around the time the tent opened. The city will, therefore, "demobilize" the migrant tent camp on Randalls Island next week.
He stated that they would continue to adjust how the city would deal with the humanitarian crisis. Although financial assistance from state and federal partners is necessary, the city had to spend from its own coffers, noted Fox5.
Assuringly, NYC mayor Adams admitted they would not waver in their migrant response.
Why Is Randalls Island Migrant Tent Camp Empty?
With the Randalls Island site closing down, Adams said his administration is opening up a new emergency facility at the four-star Watson Hotel in Midtown that will have the potential to house 600 asylum seekers.
This is in addition to several other hotels the city has decided to rent out for migrant housing since the spring.
During the last few days of operation, a month ago, the outlet has seen a few migrants on their way to the intake at Randall's tent.
The tent city is part of the district of City Councilwoman Diana Ayala, who went to see the complex a week ago but was surprised to see only 150 migrants there, not the expected number.
Spawning a negative reaction to how underutilized the tent city is since Ayala, with several Democratic Council members, disagreed with building the Randalls plan from the beginning. Problems with keeping dry and more issues had Adams send them to hotels and homeless shelters.
She expressed her approval to the Daily News late Thursday night that Adams has decided to take down the tent. She added that scaling back makes perfect sense because there is no longer a need, at least not in quantity predicted.
About 17,500 illegal immigrants have so far moved into housing subsidized by the NYC government and paid for by that city. Illegal immigrants are fleeing the poverty and violence of their home countries.
Republicans finally got fed up with the Democrats sending the illegals to their states in the borders; they sent these people to NY and let the NYC mayor deal with it, citing Yahoo.
A month ago, the number of illegals going into New York occurred as Joe Biden had decided to cap the number of Venezuelan nationals wanting asylum in America. Most of them are from Venezuela, which has an economic crisis that got worse due to the pandemic.
NYC Mayor Adams has decided to shut down the unused migrant tent camp on Randalls Island and send them to hotels in the city instead.
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