Randall’s Island tent city is ready to welcome asylum-seekers

[rangerrebew]

Randall’s Island tent city is ready to welcome asylum-seekers
The emergency shelter will open with room for up to 500 adult men for short-term stays.


 
By SAHALIE DONALDSON | OCTOBER 18, 2022 05:56 PM ET
Starting Wednesday, the sweeping tent complex in a Randall’s Island parking lot will begin temporarily sheltering newly arrived asylum-seekers as they get their bearings in a new city while receiving services like food, medical care, legal help and chart their next steps.

Unfurling the first of the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers has been a long and costly process: the site – currently set up to shelter 500 adult men but that number could rise to 1,000 in the future – was originally planned for a coastal parking lot at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, however, those plans shifted after a rainstorm underscored the parking lot’s flood-prone conditions. During a Tuesday walkthrough of the new location just outside of Icahn Stadium, city leaders said moving and setting up the new center cost around $650,000. The rest of the cost of the city’s ongoing response to the influx of asylum-seekers, according to New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, is still being analyzed. It’s likely to be high however – earlier this month New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city was on track to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/10/randalls-island-tent-city-ready-welcome-asylum-seekers/378605/

[rangerrebew]

If the government thinks high school high school boys and girls showering together is no problem, then illegals sleeping together should be a no brainer.  This is sexism, purely and simply.

[mystery-ak]

October 19, 2022 11:39am EDT
First migrants in NYC arrive at tent shelter with 500 beds, big-screen TVs, Xbox systems
Randall's Island shelter in NYC opens as temporary processing center for migrants arriving from border states

By Julia Musto | Fox News

    Tent shelters built on New York City's Randall's Island will open their doors to migrants on Wednesday.

The center is intended to be a temporary waystation for single men who were bussed into the city from southern border states.

The tents include cots for up to 500 people, laundry facilities, a cafeteria, phones and entertainment centers.

More than 18,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the Big Apple since the spring, putting a major strain on the city's homeless shelter system.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-opens-tent-shelters-migrants