New York City Mayor Eric Adams will establish a tent city on Randall’s Island in the middle of the East River of Manhattan, in an attempt to accommodate (and isolate) some of the illegal migrants now pouring into his “sanctuary city”. The news comes a week after the idea of a modern day “Hooverville” in Central Park received pushback.
“As the number of asylum seekers in our care continues to grow by hundreds every day, stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond, it has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night,” complained Adams, who was a strong supporter of mass migration until illegal aliens began moving from conservative-voting border states to his own backyard.
The city is finding it increasingly difficult (and expensive) to host migrants in hotels, and has resorted to using unusual facilities including a cruise ship terminal, an old police academy, and even the parking lot of a psychiatric hospital to accommodate them.
The East River tent city is intended to play host to around 2,000 migrants – but over 57,000 have arrived in New York City in 2023 alone.
