Two mega-shelters opening on Upper West Side

[Kamaji]

Two mega-shelters opening on Upper West Side as NYC migrant tally tops 74,000 arrivals

By Nolan Hicks and Bernadette Hogan
June 12, 2023

The Big Apple is opening two more emergency centers to provide arriving migrants with housing and social services as the number of arrivals topped 74,000 — with more than 47,000 remaining in the care of City Hall, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday.

The two new mega-shelters — dubbed Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers by officials — will open on the Upper West Side and include enough rooms to provide housing for more than 800 single women and adult families.

These two shelters will join the fleet of roughly 170 emergency shelters and social service hubs opened by the Department of Homeless Services and the city’s public hospitals corporation since the migrant crisis began last spring.

In a statement, Adams reiterated his calls for additional support and funding from the federal government to speed the process under which migrants — many of whom are fleeing political violence and economic deprivation in Central and South America and the Caribbean — can qualify for work permits and to defray more of the estimated $4 billion cost.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/12/two-mega-shelters-opening-on-upper-west-side-as-nyc-migrant-tally-tops-74000-arrivals/

[Kamaji]

Dear UWS residents:  enjoy what you voted for!

Rhetorical question:  if these people really are fleeing political violence and economic deprivation in their home countries, at what point do we simply send in the U.S. military, take the whole damned place over, and enforce peace and calm through martial law?  All of these alleged "refugees" can then be shipped back to their home countries without fear of violence or economic deprivation.