New York City's iconic Roosevelt Hotel reopens as 'asylum-seeker arrival center'
ABC NewsMay 15, 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Saturday that the city will use the historic Roosevelt Hotel as an arrival center to provide as many as 1k rooms for migrants expected to arrive in the coming weeks following the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era public health policy that allowed asylum seekers to be turned away from the southern border.
As hundreds of migrants are arriving in the city each day, the arrival center will be the city’s first and it will double as the ninth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.
New York City needs financial support and housing help from the federal and state governments, but for now the Adams administration is doing what it can to compassionately care for the uptick in the number of migrants arriving. Migrants should make their way to the Roosevelt while Adams negotiates with his counterparts in other parts of the state to find safe spaces for those seeking asylum.
It’s unbelievable how incompetently Democrats have dealt with this migrant crisis. From booting homeless veterans out of shelters to putting migrants in school gymnasiums where they could prove dangerous to children, Adams and the city's leadership seem lost and there’s no telling what they’ll do next.