New York City Mayor Eric Adams is now considering imposing a curfew on undocumented immigrants staying in the city's shelters after some residents claimed people were leaving the shelters at night to beg.
Some New York City residents said migrants are already coming to their homes and asking for money, clothes and other items.
It is abundantly clear to anyone with an ounce of common sense that this situation is unsustainable.
ABC 7 in New York reports:
New York City is considering a possible curfew on migrants in shelters
A curfew may soon be imposed on migrants in New York City shelters.
During a conference call with local lawmakers this week, Councilwoman Joan Arriola of Queens asked if the administration was considering imposing curfews at asylum seeker sites such as Floyd Bennett Field, Randall's Island and Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
This question comes amid reports that shelter residents go out at night and beg or knock on doors to ask for food, money and clothes.
A homeowner in Belle Harbor, Queens, said she had a video showing a woman and child ringing her doorbell and showing a translation on her phone identifying herself as an immigrant in need of money.
Paul King, president of the Landlords Association, said the neighborhood was now seeing an influx in panhandling.
“Some of it comes from people coming to their porches, using their children as props, begging so aggressively that people are basically coming into the house,” King said.
There appears to be a curfew already in place for homeless people living in New York City shelters, so this is nothing new.
Curfews in our migrant shelters seem logical. All of our DHS facilities have curfews, so why don't migrant shelters do that? If it's good enough for homeless New Yorkers, it should be good enough for our immigrants too.https://t.co/6fm4jqWwXw
– Joann Arriola New York City Council District 32 (@JoannAriola32) January 12, 2024
People living in shelters probably won't like this, but it's not like they have much of a choice in the matter.
