New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has opened a migrant mega-camp on Randall’s Island, where schoolchildren’s soccer fields will be disrupted as a result. The housing project is expected to cost city taxpayers about $20 million every month.
On Sunday, Adams’s office began filling up the newly built migrant camp with single adult male border crossers and illegal aliens who have arrived in the sanctuary city from the United States–Mexico border.
According to the New York Post, by the end of Monday, there will be at least 150 border crossers and illegal aliens at the migrant camp. City officials have the capacity to put some 3,000 single adult male migrants in the camp at a massive $20 million per month cost to taxpayers.
“We’re taking away from people who are real New Yorkers,” a Queens woman told the Post. “… I was born here, on the Lower East Side, and you’re telling me they come first? How is that? I pay my tax money, federal, local, all that beautifulness, and my children don’t get to enjoy New York.”
New migrant shelters under construction on Randall’s Island in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
New migrant shelters under construction on Randall’s Island in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Workers at new migrant shelters under construction on Randall’s Island in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Indeed, New York City’s school children who use the soccer fields on Randall’s Island will have their leagues and games disrupted as a result of the migrant camp. Thousands of parents signed petitions asking Adams not to put border crossers and illegal aliens on the soccer fields, but the opposition was ignored.
Meanwhile, one single adult male border crosser from Venezuela told the Post that he is happy with how generous the government has been with taxpayer money.
“I’m feeling good. The government of the United States of America, they help you,” the border crosser said.
While the migrant camp on Randall’s Island comes with an enormous price tag, illegal immigration to New York City overall is expected to cost New Yorkers about $12 billion by 2025.
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