NYC Mayor Eric Adams Closing Roosevelt Hotel to Illegal Aliens
“With disclosure, we are closing 53 sites within the span of a year.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced he will close the Roosevelt Hotel to illegal aliens. The city has had over 232,000 people since 2022.
Adams opened the hotel to illegal aliens in May 2023. It only has 1,000 rooms.
Officials have told The New York Post that the hotel has become “a breeding ground for gangs” and “attracted droves of illegal delivery bikes last year,” making it hard for pedestrians to use the sidewalks.
Adams said:
We are announcing the Roosevelt Hotel, which served as both our asylum arrival center and the humanitarian emergency response and relief center for nearly two years, will be closing in the coming months thanks to the successful strategies we put in place here in New York City.
And because of policies we advocated for at the border, The Roosevelt Hotel was opened in May 2023 during the height of the crisis with the city receiving an average of 4000 arrivals each week.
Now, thanks to our policies, we’re down to an average of just 350 new arrivals each week. And while we’re not done caring for those who came into our care, today marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have achieved in turning the corner on the unprecedented international humanitarian effort.
Our administration has skillfully managed this crisis, which has seen over 232,000 migrants into our city asking for shelter, and the Roosevelt Hotel has been key in allowing us to effectively manage our operation processing almost 75% of individuals that have come into our care through these doors.
Now, thanks to the sound policy decisions of our team, we’re able to announce the closure of this site and help even more asylum seekers take the next steps in their journeys while simultaneously saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
With disclosure, we are closing 53 sites within the span of a year.
The shelter should close as a shelter by June.
The city had 69,000 illegal aliens in the system in January 2024.
It now has 45,000.
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Only a democrat would see losing 60,000 illegals as a success.
New York should convert empty warehouse space for temporary illegal holding. Then start busing illegals to ICE at the border for deportation.
LOL.
Uh … Illegals are not brought in to “[come] into our care”. That is completely insane. It used to be that you could not come into America as an alien unless you had a visa, and then, you could not come as more than a tourist unless you could prove you had a sponsor and would not become a burden to us.
Meanwhile, New York payed Pakistan about $220 million to rent the Roosevelt for 3 years when the Pakistanis had used money that America gave them to buy it, initially, and hadn’t been able to open it because they couldn’t get it in shape so it was sitting empty, doing nothing and not worth anything. New York leased it for 3 years paying tons more than they would have likely had to pay to buy it.
The Pakistanis bought it in 2000 but had been having major problems keeping it running:
American taxpayers to the rescue of the despicable jihadis who nurtured Bin Laden for a decade …
Q: You’ve had a lot illegals come to NYC and stay in the hotel. How many people are we talking about?
A: Over 232,000 people have stayed in the hotel so far.
Q: And they all came on a bus from Texas?
A: Right!
Q: But now the illegals can’t stay there any more, are they going to live on the street?
A: No. No. Staying on the street is just for our own citizens, not for illegals. We’ll put the illegals up somewhere else.
If you thought he was gonna say, “I’m going to work with Tom Homan and send them back to where they came from,” you been smoking dope.
On a positive note, there’s probably a lot of room at Ft Knox where all the gold used to be.
There’s room to air drop them into the middle of the Gulf of AMERICA.
(No parachutes.)
“thanks to the successful strategies we put in place”
“Now, thanks to our policies”
“today marks another milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have achieved in turning the corner on the unprecedented international humanitarian effort.”
“Our administration has skillfully managed this crisis”
“thanks to the sound policy decisions of our team”
“saving taxpayers millions of dollars.”
When do they expect Adams to be able to use that arm again?
The TAXPAYERS of New York should receive reparations payments for all the taxes they paid to feed and house the illegal aliens.
Nah. Elections have consequences after all.
Well, duh
He’s daring Hochul to remove him as Mayor…and then he’s going to run against her either as a Republican or Independent.
The Roosevelt Hotel will probably need a total renovation.
More likely demolition…
As a devout anti-racist I noticed something peculiar in that photo of Mayor Adams.
I was pondering the same thing. Where is he? Ghana?
I wonder, did this have anything to do with the choking off of federal funding to so-called Sanctuary cities?
Merely coincidence, I’m sure.