New York City police officers cleared a camp of immigrants refusing to be evicted from their free temporary stay at a luxury Manhattan hotel on Wednesday night.
The migrants, described by the city council as mostly “single men”, slept on the street outside the Watson Hotel for three days after their eviction earlier this week. City officials planned to move the migrants from the hotel to a 1,000-bed shelter in Brooklyn on Sunday. illegal immigrantsgiven free rooms at the $300-a-night Hells Kitchen hotel, they refused to evict, however, and were joined by activists demonstrating outside the building.
Footage from the raid Wednesday night shows NYPD officers and vehicles clustering around the migrants as city workers clean up the area.
“We are grateful that nearly all of the single men staying at the Watson Hotel have chosen to take our calls and come in tonight from the freezing temperatures,” a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement Wednesday. “Single men staying on the Watson now chose to relocate to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, a humanitarian aid center that several elected officials today called a ‘warm’ place, or decided to leave our care by connecting with friends, family or other networks”.
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Migrants camp in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted, on February 1, 2023, in New York City.
“To be clear, no arrests were made tonight, and the only items discarded were those on the street. Any items the asylum seekers had in their rooms are still in our care and will remain available for you to pick up,” the statement continued.
New York City has struggled to cope with the influx of thousands of immigrants from the US border, bussed into New York City on orders from Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and others. .
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The city had received more than 42,000 immigrants at the end of January.
Mayor Adams tried to quash reports that the Brooklyn facility was inhumane with a visit to the shelter on Monday.
“I had to come here when I started hearing all the rumors that it was too cold, my brother put on shorts. It’s hot inside. About the food not being there, the healthy food being there,” Adams said in a video. Twitter.
New York Police Department officers and Sanitation Department workers clear asylum seekers from the sidewalk in front of the Watson Hotel in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen on Wednesday.
City officials planned to move the migrants from the hotel to a 1,000-bed shelter in Brooklyn on Sunday.
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The Brooklyn facility is built specifically to house single adult men, who make up a significant portion of the migrants who cross the US-Mexico border and are sent to New York City.
