Back in January, the former Wyndham Garden Hotel in Queens, New York was sold to Long Island-based Bayrock Capital for $24 million. But the new owners were not planning to offer lush accommodations to tourists visiting the Big Apple. They immediately took out a contract with the Department of Homeless Services and began converting the resort into housing for illegal migrants. The results have not painted a picture of success in a city already overrun by illegals. Neighbors have filed countless complaints with the police and the Department of Homeland Security. Every night, the sidewalk in front of the shelter is overrun with minors ranging in age from only six or seven up through their later teens. Neighbors say that the children have turned the area into their own "teen fight club," with screaming and shrieking piercing the night and making it impossible for many legal residents to sleep. Multiple injuries have been reported and the security guards who are supposed to oversee the site frequently do nothing about it. Many of the neighbors are fed up and they want the shelter to be closed, but the city is thus far ignoring their calls for help.
From the NY Post:
Neighbors can’t help but talk about this fight club.The residents of a Queens apartment building say they’ve hardly had a moment’s peace since January when a 128-room hotel in Long Island City was transformed into a city-run migrant shelter.Children living in the seven-story building loiter outside the front entrance in large, unsupervised groups practically every evening, claim residents next door at 911 44th Drive. From 8 p.m. until well past midnight, the kids fight and chase each other around, shouting, screaming — and disrupting neighbors’ sleep.
There are some videos available at the Post, most taken by neighbors for use when they file a complaint. The situation is simply awful. Gangs of teenage boys are seen ganging up on younger children, placing them in a headlock, and beating them down to the sidewalk. The yelling and shrieking are endless and it frequently goes on until two or three in the morning. One neighbor asked reporters the obvious questions. Where are the parents? Who is supervising these children? The answer would appear to be that nobody is taking responsibility.
Some of the teenagers in this crew are large, basically the size of young adults. Many of the legal residents of the neighborhood, particularly women are afraid to walk past the shelter after dark for fear of being attacked. Not coincidentally, incidents of petty crimes and theft have been on the rise while all of this "fight club" activity is playing out. Cars left on the street overnight are more likely to be vandalized and/or broken into.
All of these children are, at least in theory, supposed to be part of migrant family units. What kind of parents allow their underage children to run wild and unsupervised through all hours of the night? You come into this country illegally and are shipped to a large urban center where your new hosts put you up in what was once a luxury hotel room and provide you with meals and debit cards worth thousands of dollars. Then you repay them by letting your little monsters run loose and wreck the neighborhood. These are the "new arrivals" that the Democrats love talking about so much. Perhaps some of them did come to America "seeking a better life" and they seem to have found one at Wyndham Garden. We should at least be able to expect that you will conduct yourself in a civilized fashion in exchange for this largess instead of tearing down the neighborhood until it's indistinguishable from the hellhole you fled from in the first place.
Sadly, the story of Wyndham Garden is hardly unique. You can see similar examples around the rest of Gotham and in most of our major cities at this point. This shelter in Queens is only one of many examples of how this massive influx of illegal immigrants is not strengthening our country or expanding our labor base. They are sucking our cities dry of resources and dragging down our neighborhoods. We are long past the point of needing to begin massive detention and deportation programs. Legal immigration offers significant benefits to the United States in the long run, but illegal immigration only tears the nation down and further divides us.
