(Headline USA) Illegal immigrants in New York City blasted the city’s new emergency shelter at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, telling local reporters that officials must do more to provide for them.
New York erected a tent city at the former airfield earlier this month with the goal of housing about 2,000 illegal immigrants there. But when one of the first buses to the airfield arrived on Sunday, several of the illegal immigrants reportedly complained about the shelter’s conditions.
“We weren’t told where we were going. I work in the Bronx. My kids go to school in the Bronx. For us to live out here is ridiculous. We’re going back,” one migrant told the New York Post.
Democratic state Assembly member Jaime Williams claimed the migrants were right to feel frustrated.
“Families got off of the bus and saw the accommodations,” she said. “When they realized they wouldn’t be staying at a hotel, they refused to stay and demanded to be taken somewhere else. They were not told in advance that they would be going [to] a tent city.”
She declared the site “a disaster waiting to happen.”
“It’s not the ideal location for anyone to live. There’s no supermarket. There’s no infrastructure,” Williams said, adding that the Brooklyn field in densely populated New York is too “isolated.”
Kayla Mamelak, a representative for Mayor Eric Adams, defended the shelter, pointing out that options for mass housing are extremely limited since thousands of illegal immigrants keep flooding the city every week.
“With more than 65,600 migrants still currently in our care, and thousands more continuing to arrive every week, we have used every possible corner of New York City and are quite simply out of good options to shelter migrants,” she said in a statement.
This is the second report this week in which illegal immigrants have blasted leftist sanctuary cities for failing to provide them with the “sanctuary” they were promised. In Chicago, one migrant told a local outlet he would rather pack up his family and bring them back to socialist Venezuela than stay in the Windy City.
“There’s nothing here for us. How many more months of living in the streets will it take? No, no more. It’s better that I leave. At least I have my mother back home,” the migrant said.
