{"id":1989495,"date":"2023-08-03T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-considers-erecting-a-tent-city-in-central-park-to-house-illegal-immigrants-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:16:23","slug":"nyc-considers-erecting-a-tent-city-in-central-park-to-house-illegal-immigrants-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-considers-erecting-a-tent-city-in-central-park-to-house-illegal-immigrants-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mulls setting up tent city in Central Park for undocumented immigrants: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-considers-erecting-a-tent-city-in-central-park-to-house-illegal-immigrants-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989495&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>New York City Considers Housing Illegal Immigrants \u2064in Central Park<\/h2>\n<p>As New York City struggles \u2064to\u200c house more than 50,000 illegal immigrants who have flooded the\u200b city, officials are reportedly weighing the option to place many of them in tents in\u200b Central Park.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is on the table,&#8221; says\u2062 Anne Williams-Isom, NYC\u2019s deputy mayor for Health and \u200bHuman Services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Williams-Isom was asked at a press conference about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-revives-catch-and-release-to-avoid-housing-illegal-immigrants-amid-border-surge\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Revives \u2018Catch-And-Release\u2019 To Avoid Housing Illegal Immigrants Amid Border Surge\">housing illegal immigrants<\/a> in city parks and responded by saying that the city is reviewing \u2064around 3,000 \u200cpossible locations to place them, including Central Park, where \u2063an \u200destimated 42 million\u200c tourists visit\u2062 each year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are constantly \u2063looking at sites to see how we can\u200b accommodate people, but we need support and we think that the system is at \u2062a breaking point,&#8221; Williams-Isom \u2062said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since April of\u200c last year, more than 90,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in New York City. As of last month, about 55,000 were still being housed on the city\u2019s dime, causing New York\u2019s homeless shelters to hit capacity. Combined with the large \u200dhomeless population, the city is now sheltering a record 105,800 \u2063people.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly raised the alarm over the situation as officials\u2063 consider extreme measures to accommodate the influx. More than 100 illegal immigrants have been sleeping on the street outside of the Roosevelt Hotel since\u2063 last weekend. The hotel serves as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-suggests-donbas-could-fall-soon\/\" title=\"Zelensky Suggests Donbas Could Fall Soon\">humanitarian relief center<\/a>, housing illegal immigrants and providing them with food and access to vaccines, \u200dbut the hotel has hit its capacity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;From this moment \u2062on, it\u2019s downhill,&#8221; Adams said at a press conference. &#8220;There is no more room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams warned that the illegal immigration crisis &#8220;is going\u2063 to come to a neighborhood near you&#8221; \u2064as he called for more proactive measures from the federal government.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We need to control the border,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We need to call a state of emergency, and we need to properly fund this national crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET\u2064 THE\u200c DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adams suggested that he was opposed to\u2062 erecting \u200dtents for illegal immigrants, saying the city needs to &#8220;localize this madness&#8221; and &#8220;figure out a way of\u2063 how we don\u2019t have what\u2019s \u2063in other municipalities, where\u2064 you have tent cities all over the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063city\u200c estimates that it will spend $4.2 billion to house and care for illegal \u200bimmigrants by the middle of 2024. Adams \u200ccontinues\u2062 to push the Biden administration to do more to help the city deal with the crisis. City officials want the White House\u200b to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-considers-erecting-a-tent-city-in-central-park-to-house-illegal-immigrants-report\/\" title=\"NYC mulls setting up tent city in Central Park for undocumented immigrants: Report\">grant illegal immigrants expedited work authorizations<\/a> and the federal government to send newly arrived illegal immigrants to multiple cities across \u200bthe country in hopes of \u200bcurbing the influx \u2063in New York.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Park. Williams-Isom, NYC&#8217;s deputy mayor for Health and Human Services, revealed that officials are considering the idea due to the overwhelming influx of over 50,000 illegal immigrants. 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