they came from. they left shanty towns where they claim they feared for their lives. crawled through jungles and marched through desserts to get mere. drawing a line in brooklyn? they are from venezuela and they don t want to go to brooklyn? we are giving them free food and free rent and beds on the brooklyn waterfront. the definition of migrant is to move from one place to another now they are done moving. traveled 3,000 miles to come here and now they don t want to go one more mile? the migrants want to stay at this luxury hotel and pay for it by defunding the police. the immediate resolution is at the hotel watson needs to accept these men back and put them back into the rooms. longer term solution is reallocate funding like overhundred-dollar funded departments like the nypd into housing vouchers and other vouchers that get people into personality stable housing. jesse: these migrants have been getting moved all over new
for the hotels. and now the migrants extended checkout? how extended? how long are we paying for the migrants to live for free in times square hotel? until easter? until next easter? forever? they should be thankful they are not getting deported. we had a president who deported migrants and built hotels. enough to we have a president who imports migrants and pays for their hotels. migrants shacking up are not even families. you heard the guy they are single men. if you are interested they are staying at the watson and they are giving the rest of the migrants a bad wrap. they come here saying they want to work and then protest that they don t get free rent. i guess they are assimilating quickly. already protesting and trashing hotel rooms. i mean, if you want to stay in times square get naked and grab a guitar. people will pay you. sure brooklyn is not martha s vineyard but it beats wherever
came here tried to reenter the hotel watson and were not per mist mitted to do so. many living on the street. some of the lucky ones in tents. the mayor s office issued a statement, portion of it reads the facilities at the brooklyn cruise terminal provided the same services as any other humanitarian relief in the city. they took place as planned. we remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments. we got an update from the mayor s office saying that advocacy groups here are fomenting a great deal of disruption taking place. meanwhile the number of the advocates are saying they want new york city to reallocate housing facilities even the hotel watson not acceptable. they want long-term housing in apartments. the bottom line here, sandra. since september as you know, some 42,000 migrants have
it only began october 1st. that averages out to 2,450 migrants a day who are evading border patrol and escaping into the united states. new york city s migrant crisis is spur algorithm out of control. doesens of migrants refusing to leave a hotel last night after the city tried to relocate them to a new shelter. david lee miller is live outside the watson hotel. what is behind you right now? what s the scene there? behind me is the hotel. possibly a tourist destination. now as you can see there are dozens of migrants living on the street. let me explain now why. the hotel has been the temporary home for dozens of migrants all of them single men. men who are here without their families. and they say now that they are being unfairly evicted by the city from this hotel. the city says it wants to use
this facility to house migrant families. migrants who are here with their women and children. yesterday a number of the migrants were put on buses to be relocated in a cruise terminal in brooklyn. men boarded the buses, looked at the facilities they were being provided and returned here to the hotel watson saying the conditions were absolutely deplorable. one activist we spoke to speaking on behalf of the migrants said the conditions if brooklyn were not acceptable. there is a large structure, 1,000 beds. beds made out of hard material. no space for personal belongings. if you have personal belongings you put them in a longer out of your control. only four bathrooms for 1,000 men. unsustainable. for anybody who is working. an isolated part of the city away from many of them work and it is cold. the men who left brooklyn and