New York City has been housing migrants in makeshift shelters throughout the city. In some areas, it has led to protests and court challenges.
Staten Island residents protest outside a closed Catholic school-turned-migrant shelter on Staten Island, N.Y., on Aug. 28.Staten Island residents protest outside a closed Catholic school-turned-migrant shelter on Staten Island, N.Y., on Aug. 28.Up until recently, an eerie recording reverberated 24 hours a day in the usually quiet Staten Island neighborhood of Arrochar:"This building is not safe for humans. The community wants you to go back to New York City. Immigrants are not safe here.
The loudspeaker was pointed at a new migrant shelter, assembled at what was once a Catholic school. One of several shelters on Staten Island, it now houses 60 people. A couple of years ago, this might have been unthinkable: for a city in which a third of its population is foreign-born to become one of the focal points in the
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