New York City Mayor Eric Adams will implement a curfew at some of the shelters housing illegal immigrants after numerous complaints.
The New York Post reported that the affected illegal immigrants must check in at 11 PM ET and stay inside the shelter until 6 AM.
The curfew covers four centers:
People can receive permits to skip curfews for work, school, legal, or medical reasons.
It is the same policy as homeless shelters in the city.
Residents around the camps have complained about panhandling, drug use, and crime:
The curfews were put in place in response to complaints from NYC residents living near migrant shelters and centers, who have been talking for weeks about an “invasion” of migrants knocking on their doors and begging for money at all hours of the day and night.Most complaints have been centered around larger tent cities, or HERRCs (Humanitarian Emergency Response Relief Centers) like the Floyd Bennett Field shelter in the deep outskirts of Brooklyn, which is so remote that many migrants have found it easier to panhandle for money locally than traverse to the inner boroughs for work.Residents near Floyd Bennett told The Post in December that scenes of desperate migrants in their neighborhood were “alarming,” and had left many residents “on edge.”Other shelters, like the Randall’s Island tent city, have dealt with spates of crime, including drug dealing and even a fatal stabbing earlier in January.
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