New York Post By Bernadette Hogan,Kevin Sheehan,MaryAnn Martinez and Bruce Golding August 11, 2022
From south of the border, to the front of the line.
The city rolled out the red carpet for a group of migrants at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter who could be seen on Thursday boarding a yellow school bus headed to a homeless assessment center in Brooklyn.
The 17 migrants were escorted from Manhattan to their next accommodations while carrying identical, brand-new black backpacks and wearing clothing that also appeared new.
One, Daniel Reyes, said he was from Honduras and had been at the shelter for around a month after arriving in the US about a year ago. Reyes said eight others — one from Colombia, one from Guatemala and six from Venezuela — showed up at the shelter three days earlier.
“The gangs — no good. They come to the United States,” he said in broken English.
But local shelter dwellers at Bellevue griped that the migrants were getting VIP treatment compared to homeless Americans.
“We’ve all been here waiting, going through this process, and let me tell you: They’re getting everything real quick,” said Ronald Francois, 55, a Navy veteran from Queens. “They got more in four or five days than I got in 29! They’re brushing us aside.”
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