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More than 45,000 migrants have arrived in New York City in recent months and have been placed in shelters, sometimes in hotels that previously served tourism, such as the Row hotel in Times Square. But a worker quoted by several media denounced that in some of the rooms that he cleans, the disorder is monumental, as the tabloid published in photos New York Post. In addition, domestic disputes are reported.
“I had an argument with my husband, the police called him and then they don’t want to let him in and right now I’m going to go out into the street with my two children, I have a two-year-old baby and a 4-year-old baby. years. They put my husband as if he was beaten and he never touched me, he never hit me. They tell me that they give me and my children lodging but my husband shows up here and they don’t want to let him in so it’s not fair because he didn’t hit me, the Shelter people called the police,” says Odalys, a Venezuelan migrant.
For many who come in search of the American dream, this type of behavior is deplorable.
The cost of contracting hotels to convert them into hostels has increased and according to the mayor’s office, the cost is already over 500 million dollars and could reach 4,000 million dollars in the next fiscal year.
