One of Mayor Eric Adams’ own commissioners has circulated a petition calling on the Big Apple to backtrack on plans to erect a migrant mega shelter on Randall’s Island’s kiddie soccer fields.…
One of Mayor Eric Adams’ own commissioners has circulated a petition calling on the Big Apple to backtrack on plans to erect a migrant mega shelter onVilda Vera Mayuga, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection chief, sent out an email blast to West Side Soccer League parents this week urging them to oppose Adams’ latest push to house asylum seekers on sports fields.
Vilda Vera Mayuga circulated a petition calling on the Big Apple to backtrack on plans to erect a migrant mega shelter on Randall’s Island’s kiddie soccer fields.The email, which included a link to the Change.org petition, was sent out from Mayuga’s WSSL email account. Construction workers started erecting the new makeshift migrant shelter on Randall’s Island this week.“In my personal capacity as commissioner of my children’s soccer league, I recently sent an email on behalf of the board of the league that represented its collective decision — a decision that I had removed myself from completely about a petition that I did not sign,” Mayuga said.
The city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection chief said that sheltering for migrants “simply cannot be at the expense of our youth.”Hizzoner said the state would be “covering the costs” of the shelter’s construction, maintenance and staffing.of weeks because of a reported lack of use, given its relatively isolated location.
“Poor & middle class kids will lose the 4 fields where they now play & once got to learn the life skills &cooperative lessons we all know sports instills in youth. All because we continue to house migrants without any plan to stop. What a shame. Will anyone try denying this is precisely what will happen here?”Meanwhile, the soccer league argued erecting a shelter on the fields flies in the face of the push to build up sports among young New Yorkers.
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