Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out to protest a migrant “Tent City” on Wednesday that recently opened near several elementary schools in Queens.
The Tent City opened on the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center on Tuesday.
“The new emergency site is expected to host about 1,000 adult migrant men as officials struggle to handle the flood of asylum seekers reaching the Big Apple,” The New York Post reports.
From The New York Post:
Some of the chants from protesters included “No tent city,” “Close the border,” “No migrants” and “America first.”
As a busload of migrants reached the facility Wednesday night, one person was heard yelling, “Bunch of parasites, sorry to say” while others were chanting, “USA!”
During the demonstration, Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, refused authorities’ orders to get out of the middle of the street near the Creedmoor facility and was arrested as another protester waved a Trump 2024 flag in the background.
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More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in New York since last April. NYC Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are running out of places to house them.
“We are constantly looking at sites to see how we can accommodate people, but we need support and we think that the system is at a breaking point,” Anne Williams-Isom, NYC’s deputy mayor for Health and Human Services, said.
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