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The cost of housing migrants is so extraordinary — an estimated $4.3 billion between April of 2022 and July 2024 — that Mayor Adams says he must cut city services to afford it. [Emphasis added] To manage those expenses, Adams says the city is planning to trim services such as library hours, meals for senior citizens, re-entry programming for Rikers Island prisoners, and free, full-day care for three-year-olds. Last month, Adams also sought to unwind the city’s right to shelter, which entitles the migrants to housing within 24 hours of their arrival. [Emphasis added] … Data provided by the comptroller’s...

Not too long ago, San Francisco was still a remarkably beautiful city, although even then it could change on a dime. One could be in the midst of a leisurely stroll down a gorgeous street filled with chic cafes, turn a corner, and find oneself without warning in the middle of a large crowd of menacing homeless drug addicts. Now, after decades of far-Left misrule that has picked up speed in the wake of the COVID hysteria, the city’s dirty, degrading, and dangerous areas are growing rapidly and taking the whole place over, and the city’s remaining sane people are...

Starts with Chuck Schumer wheeling Diane Feinstein into the Senate, quotes on her "working here" comments indicating (irritated at reporter- either know or don't know- Alzheimer's/Stroke. Alongside was Pelosi's daughter who thinks Newsom will appoint her senator from CA). Three Blind Mice: Biden, Fetterman, Feinstein. NO excuse for a party to keep people in their seats, incompetent and their policy (chinese spies included) only to KEEP power in their hands. Holiday Inn NYC- owned by Golden Seahorse, LLC a CCP company/developer--making full census 190/day rooms paid for by fedgov (93K a day, 2.8 mill plus a month) housing non-working illegal...

Take a listen and watch as the manager of a hotel housing 5,000 illegal aliens has a very blunt interview talking about what it's really like in the hotel.

In order to persuade suburbs to take on a bigger share of the flood of illegal migrants in New York, Gov Kathy Hochul (D) characterized the invaders as "hopeful immigrants seeking work." Unfortunately, the 5,000 immigrants being housed in the Row New York City Hotel show no sign of being interested in work of any kind. Site Administrator Carlos Arrellano said that "when the immigrants arrive they are given rooms that previously rented for $500 a night, free benefits, like Uber services, healthcare, car seats and cribs for children, laundry services, housekeeping, metro cards for the subway, and three meals...

During a sit-down interview with a whistleblower who worked at the largest migrant hotel in New York City, he revealed that almost 5,000 migrants are currently staying a block away from Times Square, causing havoc for surrounding businesses and allowing children to drink alcohol while receiving millions of dollars in free benefits. Carlos Arrellano, a whistleblower who worked at the largest migrant hotel in New York, is coming forward to blow the whistle after witnessing what he calls “the worst situation” he’s ever seen. “I’ve been doing this for five years, and in my five years, this has been the...

Always follow the money...

It appears the story about homeless veterans being displaced by migrants in upstate New York hotels was a hoax, according to a New York politician quoted in the original story. The tale elicited outrage at the notion that homeless veterans out into the street to make room for the ongoing influx of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.The situation began when Sharon Toney-Finch, a veterans advocate who runs the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation (YIT), told the New York Post that upstate hotels were evicting almost two dozen homeless veterans to make room for incoming immigrants being bused from New York City...

Gary Moretti and Deanna Mifsud were left 'devastated' after Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York, cancelled 30 rooms they booked for their wedding guests . The hotel rooms will now be used for migrants who are being bussed to Upstate New York to alleviate the pressure on NYC Moretti claimed the move could end up costing upwards of $20,000 as they rush to find alternative accommodation for family and friends Gary Moretti, 37, and Deanna Mifsud, 35, slammed The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh after discovering it had cancelled 30 rooms they had booked just weeks before their nuptials. 'It was...

Broome County Executive Jason Garnar will announce an executive order meant to ban lodging establishments from accepting asylum seekers on behalf of New York City, WSKG has confirmed. The announcement will bring Broome County in line with other counties including Orange, Rockland and Rensselaer, in issuing orders meant to prevent New York City from signing contracts with hotels to house asylum seekers in recent days. This comes as the U.S. braces for a major wave of asylum seekers to enter the country, as the federal COVID-19 emergency expires at midnight Thursday, and with it, Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing...

The San Francisco Chronicle investigated the city’s efforts to give homeless people housing in former hotel rooms and found that many of the rooms are often vacant. In some hotels up to half the rooms are vacant. The Chronicle blames the problem primarily on the mayor’s referral process, but the story itself suggests significant problems with the tenants and with the nonprofits the city pays to keep the buildings maintained.Emails and records obtained by The Chronicle show that, on average, about 990 supportive housing units in San Francisco were unoccupied last year — 10% of the city’s housing stock for...

The number of migrants being hosted in British hotels at the taxpayers’ expense rose from 2,577 in March 2020 to 37,142 by September 2022. According to government data analysed by the Guardian, an even larger number of migrants are being hosted in so-called dispersal accommodation — typically shared houses and flats — with the figure already standing at 41,388 in March 2020, and rising by another 11,910 between then and September 2022. The massive increase in migrants being hosted in hotels over the same period, from less than 2,600 to tens of thousands, has grabbed many more headlines, however, in...

A food influencer is sparking mixed reviews online after demonstrating how he makes pizza in a hotel bathroom in a TikTok tutorial with 1.8 million views. “Add seasonings to cover up the taste of bathroom,” says the TikToker who goes by Barfly in his pie-in-the-sky instructional. The TikTok cook specializes in MacGyvering up food in oft kitchen-less hotel rooms: grilling steak with an iron, using a toaster as a miniature chicken griddle and other hotel hacks like a gastronomic Bear Grylls. In his latest — and perhaps most questionable — shortcut, the “iron” chef decides to make pizza in the...

FIRST ON FOX: California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign once again spent thousands of dollars on luxury hotels, including locations in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and New York City. Swalwell’s campaign dropped some serious cash in the California Democrat’s latest lavish expenditures, which included ritzy hotels, luxury car rides and fine dining. The spending comes as Americans both in his district and around the country face sky-high inflation that is driving food, fuel and energy costs through the ro

LOS ANGELES - On Friday, the Los Angeles City Council will consider passing an ordinance that would house homeless people in empty hotel rooms. If it passes, every hotel in Los Angeles will have to report their vacancies. According to the measure, "Each hotel shall communicate to the Department or its designee, in a form that the Department prescribes, by 2 p.m. each day the number of available rooms at the hotel for that night." "It’s crazy," said Ray Patel, the president of the Northeast Los Angeles Hotel Owners Association. Patel said members of the association are worried. "I can't...

As the Los Angeles City Council prepares to vote on a controversial ordinance on homelessness on Friday, hotel owners are going public with their concerns. The council’s vote concerns a voucher program that would house the homeless in hotels alongside guests and workers. According to documents from the city, every hotel in Los Angeles would have to notify the city every day by 2 p.m. how many vacant rooms are available. During the pandemic, hotels housed homeless people in exchange for government vouchers, and many hotel owners and managers felt the program was a disaster, with constant fighting, drug use...

Joe Biden is filling up Maine Hotels with his illegal migrants.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul has invested between $250,000 and $500,000 in 18 hotels across the country, according to a House disclosure. The hotels branded by Marriott and Hilton are in the following cities: Paul’s investment strategy also included purchasing call options worth between $500,001 and $1 million shortly after the Pentagon revered course and canceled a Microsoft contract, creating an opportunity for Amazon to again bid for the contract that was awarded to their rival.

The city will soon move thousands of homeless New Yorkers out of dozens of hotels and back into congregate shelters due to “greatly improved” pandemic metrics, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. The move — which would move about 8,000 homeless people out of 60 hotels — comes after the Big Apple has seen record-low COIVD-19 levels and the Empire State’s pandemic restrictions were lifted on Tuesday as 70 percent of adult residents received at least one vaccine dose, according to federal data. “It is time to move homeless folks who were in hotels for a temporary period of time...

A nonprofit organization that was given an $87 million federal contract to house migrant families temporarily in hotels is asking for donations to fly those families to their destinations across the country. Spending any charitable donations could expose the organization, Family Endeavors, to legal problems while it is responsible for holding tens of thousands of children and families in Arizona and Texas over the next six months, according to two lawyers who are experts on government oversight matters. Family Endeavors last month won an $87 million contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that other companies were not permitted to bid...