Bronx community leaders and immigration advocates held a protest against the 'tent city' location proposed for incoming migrants.
Josh Einiger has more on the backlash from residents in the Bronx over New York Mayor Eric Adams' plan for a tent city at Orchard Beach.Bronx community leaders and immigration advocates held a protest against the proposed "tent city" location for incoming migrants being bused from southern states.
The tents will be large industrial heated shelters housing up to 1,000 migrants at a time, Mayor Eric Adams said they are supposed to be a temporary stop for migrants as they get on their feet. "We are going to treat everyone in a humane fashion, but these are two different entities," he said. "This is a crisis of migrant and asylum seekers, and that is how we will respond to it."
"We don't want this temporary respite center to end up becoming a de facto shelter for folks where there is 1,000 beds," said Murad Awawdeh, with the New York Immigration Coalition said. "Where people are going to be sleeping and literally just being there in Orchard Beach, which is incredibly far from true mass transit."
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