There is criticism stemming from the asylum seeker chaos outside The Roosevelt Hotel on Saturday. AielloTV reports.
presence brought a semblance of order to the scene on Sunday. However, single adult asylum seekers continued to wait on the sidewalk or on buses, while families and women with children were given priority., where more than half the population lives in poverty, endured an uncomfortable arrival in New York, with hundreds of single adults on the sidewalk outside The Roosevelt Hotel, or sleeping on buses brought in to provide some shelter.
Services at the Roosevelt are almost exclusively focused now on families and women with children. Activists say most of them are being bused to shelters upstate. Single adults are being told to wait.New York City preparing to evict asylum seekers to make space for arriving families, Mayor Adams says Critics say the recent chaotic scene at the hotel is part of a city plan to win more support from Albany and Washington.
"So we have a lot of people stranded in New York City because of some type of petty politics that are being played by the city asking for more money from the feds, and they think by creating this fabricated chaos they're gonna get funds coming down the pipeline faster," said Power Malu, of the group Artists Athletes Activists.
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