Brooklyn parents' fight against a New York City migrant shelter is documented in a new film after they say the city opened an all-male shelter next to a school.
Brooklyn residents say they were blindsided by New York City officials' decision to open an all-male migrant shelter on the same block as an elementary school. 'We wanted to know when it's going to happen, what are the logistics, what are the safety measures. We were not given any transparency,' Brooklyn mom of three Irina Edelstein says in the Independent Women's Forum documentary, 'Brooklyn's Border Crisis.
didn't know about the shelter until two months before that meeting, and it had been in the works for almost a year, I think,' he says in the documentary of learning about the shelter from a neighbor. The March community meeting was packed to the brim with residents seeking answers about safety protocols and logistics for the shelter. But Edelstein claims that city leaders weren't transparent about their plans.
Reed says he has compassion for the people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and he ministers to men in the shelter. 'I've seen some immigrants come to our church,' Reed says in the documentary. 'So my heart reaches out to them. Unfortunately, they've said this as well, there's some bad players in the shelters and in all the shelters, and that's the problem.
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