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  • Socialist lawmaker offers her Queens district for migrants — then goes silent

    09/02/2023 10:12:21 AM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/02/2023 | Jon Levine
    Tensions between lawmakers over how to handle the city’s migrant crisis are boiling over — with one Queens socialist volunteering her district as a location for new migrant shelters. More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple since April 2022 — with 10,000 more arriving every month. Jessica González-Rojas, whose north-central district snakes through Ditmars all the way to Jackson Heights — made the offer on August 24 in a contentious Zoom call organized by the mayor’s office to coordinate migrant efforts between city and state lawmakers. Tensions flared over the issue of capacity with moderate and conservative...