Illegal immigrants warn each other against New York's new shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, citing lack of television

Illegal immigrants are warning each other to stay away from New York's new "tent city" for migrants which is located at Floyd Bennett Field. They say the controversial Brooklyn shelter is "crazy" and "not suitable for children" which has prompted families to either flee the site and/or refuse to be transported there.

This has created a significant problem because this site, which is made up of four congregate sleeping dorms that can hold up to 2,000 people, is currently the only shelter the city is offering to illegal immigrants with children, according to the New York Post.

A Venezuelan couple who arrived in the Big Apple with their three small children a few days ago said that they refused to be transported to Floyd Bennett after another illegal migrant family had warned them about the facility.

"They said they were going to send us to Floyd Bennett Field yesterday," the 23-year-old father told the Post.

"We did not go because we already know the situation over there. We saw people returned with children. They say it's not suitable there. There is nothing there…not even a television," he said.

The Venezuelan family had been sleeping on chairs at The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan before they were told to relocate to Floyd Bennet Field. But since they refused the offer, the parents say that they might have to sleep on the streets with their children ages 5, 3, and 10 months.
 

"They told me that if we didn't take that address…they couldn't help us and we were going to stay on the streets or go to another city in the United States," the father told the outlet.

The mother explained that the City won't help them since they rejected the offer. The family was bused to the Big Apple after illegally entering the US through Texas.

"We arrived four days ago and they sent us to the tent and we rejected it so they don't want to help. They don't want to show us anywhere else," she said in tears.

The father said he would rather sleep in the hotel lobby and added, "Right now we have nowhere to stay. Sleeping in the chair is the safest thing I see. We are going to be on the streets with the babies."

A City Hall spokesperson told NYP that the Floyd Bennett site is the shelter that is being offered to migrant families with children.

"There's a still a place for them at Floyd Bennett, if they go to the Roosevelt, they will given a place a Floyd Bennett," they said.

Mayor Adams commented on the controversial Brooklyn shelter and explained that it's the only option to aid the illegal immigration crisis that has plagued the City.

"It would be a plus if we can eventually reach a level where we will be self-sustaining and we don't need Floyd Bennett," he said, according to the outlet. "But right now, I don't see that happening anytime in the immediate future."

Floyd Bennett is among the more than 200 shelters established by the city to accommodate the ceaseless stream of illegal immigrants who have descended upon the Big Apple since the issue involving asylum seekers intensified in the spring of 2022. Some 10,000 people flood into the city each month due to Biden's border crisis.

As to the latest calculation by City Hall, approximately 139,500 illegal immigrants have passed through New York City since the spring of 2022, with more than 65,600 migrants remaining in the city's custody, according to the New York Post.