Inside New York's migrant hotels

(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

As you may recall, one part of New York City’s brilliant plan to deal with the flood of illegal migrants being shipped to the Big Apple from our open southern border was to commandeer some of the city’s pricey hotels (at taxpayer expense) and convert them into “temporary” shelters. Two of the businesses appropriated in this fashion are the once-elegant Row NYC in Manhattan and the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen. I say “once-elegant” because investigative reporters have been touring both of these establishments and finding that they are no longer recognizable. One worker at Row NYC has spilled the beans to reporters, describing a scene of “total chaos,” where hallways are filled with waste and a non-stop “free-for-all” of sex, drugs, and violence is taking place. The lack of planning that went into this housing project is evident and the migrants are becoming violent in many cases. (NY Post)

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A once-trendy Manhattan hotel has become a wild “free-for-all” of sex, drugs and violence after the city began housing migrants there, an employee claimed Tuesday.

Row NYC worker Felipe Rodriguez — who told The Post earlier this month that migrants were throwing away “tons” of prepared food at the hotel — said the facility has now descended into “total chaos.

“Chaos, total chaos,” Rodriguez told “Fox & Friends” when asked to describe conditions at the hotel. “There’s no accountability.

The hotel employee, Felipe Rodriguez, makes it clear that there is almost no supervision or control being exercised by municipal workers. The city simply rounded up the migrants, dumped them off at the hotel, and left the staff to deal with the situation. Predictably, that has proved to be an impossible task and one that the employees were never intended to perform.

The migrants aren’t paying to stay there, so most of them clearly don’t care about trying to maintain their rooms, take out the trash, or anything else. They can’t be evicted because the City has a law forbidding their removal unless they are to be deported or sent to a different facility. Fights and sexual assaults have been reported and all of the food waste and human waste is attracting rats.

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The hotels’ management teams aren’t protesting or seeking relief for their workers, either. Rodriguez pointed out that the city is actually paying the hotels more money to keep the migrants there than they would take in by serving regular guests. And while it hasn’t been clearly established, the monumental cost of eventually gutting and cleaning out the hotels before they can return to normal operations will doubtless be passed on to the taxpayers as well.

Also, this is no longer looking like a “temporary” housing situation, particularly at the Watson Hotel. A new migrant housing facility was recently established in Brooklyn, but when municipal workers attempted to move the migrants there from the Watson, a large number of them simply refused to go, preferring to stay at the formerly swanky address.

What did the Mayor and the City Council think was going to happen when they launched this project? This chaos was completely predictable. And there is no end in sight because there will apparently not be any end to the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the border each month, with many of them winding up in New York City. They will all be expecting asylum, free housing and food, and eventually citizenship. And don’t be fooled by the muted protestations coming from both the Democrats in New York City or the federal government. This is all happening by design.

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