AND Ministry of Justice He has opened a criminal investigation into financing and surgery at two Manhattan hotels, which are used as a migrant shelter, according to several reports.
Federal prosecutors sent calls to the Hotel Roosevelt Hotel, which was transformed into a migrant shelter and a suction center, as well as the Stewart Hotel, which was transformed into a migrant shelter, according to the CBS News.
Prosecutors seek information about the people who stayed there, including their names and identifying data.
Asylum seekers are set up in front of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, turned into a city management shelter for a newly formed migrant family in New York. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Opens a mass migrant shelter in a blue city despite the furious opposition of inhabitants
As part of the investigation, prosecutors also issued an invitation to the Chandler Hotel, although this facility is used as a shelter for homeless people, not as a migrant shelter, reports are said.
The submarine subpoena, issued by the New York Southern district, allegedly violated the Federal Immigration Law, states Fox 5 nywhich reported that a court call were sent to hotels, not city officials.
He has asked the hotel names for entities and individuals responsible for “financing and managing the illegal program of shelter for immigrants/migrants”, as well as all contracts or contracts related to it, reports the New York Times.
Hundreds of migrants show that they sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. The Ministry of Justice investigates funding and operations at two hotels in Manhattan, which are used as migrant shelters, according to several reports. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
Mayor Eric Adams says migrant shelter from Roosevelt NYC will close soon
Mayor Eric Adams spokesman told sales that he could not comment on any type of federal investigation. Fox News Digital addressed the Mayor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice for additional information.
Is currently less than 45,000 migrants In city care, which is in January 2024, with a high 69,000. New York taxpayers have dropped $ 1 billion to pay for housing for more than 232,000 they arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022.
Demonstrators protest against New York’s response to a migrant crisis outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
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Hotel Roosevelt, which has about 1,000 rooms, has been processed more than 173,000 migrants Since its opening in May 2023 and has become the focal point of the city migrant crisis in the last two years, since it was the first stop of many border crusaders.
According to reports, New York City agreed to pay up to $ 220 million to the hotel owned by the Pakistan Government. The deal was allegedly part of a $ 1.1 billion IMF [International Monetary Fund] The rescue package that helps Pakistan to avoid a failure at international debt, according to former investment banker and author John Lefevre.
Adams announced that the shelter would be closed soon and the New York Post reported Closing time June.
