New York City is allowing room for roughly 80 migrants in the Sunset Park Recreation Center, as well as the McCarren Recreation Center.
Brooklyn residents are pushing back on the city's latest effort to house asylum seekers at recreation centers in Brooklyn.Brooklyn residents are pushing back on the city's latest effort to house asylum seekers.
Sixty migrants are reported to be sleeping on cots inside Brooklyn's Sunset Park Recreation Center, a move by the city, struggling to deal with asylum seekers coming en masse every day."I don't think this is the place that they need to stay permanently," another resident told FOX 5. "I hope we find them better shelter. But I'm very glad that they're here, and I'm very glad that my neighbors have been here to welcome them.
While additional security is in place, there is concern from some residents about just who these folks are from Central and South America.
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