Officials in New York City finally managed to clear the mob of illegal migrants who had been protesting inside and in front of the Watson Hotel in Manhattan this week. Encouraged by liberal activists, the migrants were fighting the plan to move them to a new shelter that was established in Brooklyn. The protest was taking place in and around the formerly luxurious hotel that they had completely trashed. Some of the aforementioned activists were cheering the migrants on, but as the New York Post editorial board pointed out yesterday, a very different effect was being observed among members of the local community. The city has been emptying its coffers to give these illegal aliens free meals and fancy hotel rooms that previously cost upwards of $300 per night, and the migrants responded by trashing the neighborhood and refusing to clear out once new housing was arranged. Many in the community are rightly “fuming” over this and growing fed up with the situation.

Until Wednesday, everyone outside of the political and activist class was dumbfounded by both City Hall’s major largesse and activists’ extremism in fueling the migrants’ demands.

“Ingrates,” we heard New-Yorkers-in-the-street describe the migrants who refused transfer from the hotel to the Brooklyn center. These men (all single) enjoyed $300-a-night private rooms (with bath and shower) in the heart of Midtown, luxuries most taxpayers envy.

It’s “bulls—,” fumed Bonfilio Solis, a Mexican immigrant who owns a remodeling business. He told The Post that the migrants were being “very disrespectful.”

Mr. Bonfilio Solis (mentioned above) is an excellent example of the people who have had it with the migrants. He was recently interviewed by the newspaper and his story is noteworthy. Solis is an immigrant himself, but he and his family came into the country legally, worked toward gaining citizenship and built up a remodeling business in Manhattan. Now he is watching his neighborhood being trashed by a bunch of people he sees as freeloaders.

This is a mistake that liberal Democrats (like the ones encouraging the migrants to protest) seem to make over and over again. They simply assume that if a Hispanic person comes into the country they will automatically become a Democrat and support any form of immigration. But the people who come here and work hard to build up the community do not appreciate seeing it torn down in this fashion.

Imagine all of the people who had to scrape and save to get by after arriving in America. In the past few months, they have seen the migrants being showered with “free stuff.” And we’re not just talking about free meals and rooms. As the Post points out, many of them have been getting free “health care, haircuts, cellphones, ping-pong tables and Xboxes.”

The message has been sinking in. A recent poll from Quinnipiac found that 70 percent (!) of voters in New York City agree the wave of migrants is a “crisis” and that the city does not have the resources to deal with them. They also agree with a proposal by Mayor Adams to begin shipping the migrants to the upstate region. Speaking as a resident of upstate myself, you need to come up with a different plan. We don’t want them either and we have even fewer resources to care for them.

There is still no end in sight when it comes to these problems and there won’t be until the border is secured and the flood of migrants slows back down. In the meantime, judging by the latest polling numbers, all that these open border policies are doing is creating a lot more Republicans and conservatives in a city that’s traditionally been ruled entirely by liberal Democrats.