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NEW YORK – Americans gave Fox News split answers on whether they
support New York City’s plan to provide migrants with hotel
rooms.
"I think if they're available … why let them go vacant when
someone needs a room?" Jerry, from Florida, told Fox News
outside the Row NYC, an upscale hotel the city plans to use.
"Right now there's a desperate situation for certain people that
has to be taken into consideration and maybe given priority
until they can be placed in some other facility."
But Frank, a longtime New Yorker, said the idea was "absolutely
ludicrous."
"I think that I understand New York trying to provide for all
these different people, but … teach them how to work or
something," he said. "Don't let somebody get a free ride on the
taxpayer."
For weeks, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending busloads of
migrants to New York City, to protest what he sees as a failure
to act on the border crisis by the Biden administration.
Mayor Eric Adams is trying to secure nearly 6,000 hotel rooms to
house those border crossers, the New York Post reported this
week. Adams has criticized Abbott, calling the Republican
governor’s actions "horrific" and accused him of using people
"as political pawns to manufacture a crisis."
Frank told Fox News the easiest fix would be to strengthen and
protect America’s borders. He said he’s upset that people in
other states, particularly Texas, are "laughing at New York" as
the city’s leaders "give away everything that the taxpayers
built."
"Don't let New York become a laughing stock," Frank said.
Chris, a tourist from Illinois staying at the Row, told Fox News
he sympathizes with residents struggling to pay rent and now
must see their taxpayers go toward providing housing for illegal
immigrants.
"They’ve got to put them somewhere, I understand," he said. "But
I still think that we need to have some kind of control over our
borders and some kind of plan in action to house the people."
"What's the long term?" he continued. "How long are they going
to be in the hotel?"
As rents citywide continue to skyrocket and as the homeless
crisis grows, Chris said the city might want to focus resources
elsewhere.
The median rental price in Manhattan was $4,150 in July – almost
$1,000 more than it was during the same month last year, a July
report from real estate company Douglas Elliman showed. And more
than 50,000 homeless people slept in New York City shelters each
night in June, according to the nonprofit Coalition for the
Homeless.
"You’ve got homeless people that live here that should be taken
care of before … the immigrants that are coming in here," Chris
said.
Sam agreed.
"I just feel like there's enough people here who are, you know,
from the country that need support themselves," she said.
But Ana-Brit, who was visiting from Cincinnati, said America
should strive to be the kind of country that helps other people.
"It’s not fair to anyone … with rent how expensive it is," she
said. "But New York is also a place where it’s for everyone."
It’s a city where anyone can belong," Ana-Brit added. "And it’s
a good entry point for many … especially [people who are] new to
America."
Lisa, of Brooklyn, called the city’s idea to use hotel rooms for
housing "amazing" and said it will be "such a big comfort" to
migrants arriving in New York.
"When people are in need, you have to pull the stops to give
them what they want and what is necessary for them to survive
and make it through to the next day," she said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-give-migrants-free-luxury-
hotel-rooms-americans-weigh
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