Immigration Harms the Local Poor, By Chris Knight (Florida)

One can go to the site below to see a number of videos of poor people, including Blacks, describing how the present US immigration invasion crime wave is harming them. Springfield Ohio is a city where almost a quarter of the people live in poverty, and that was before 20,000 Haitians were dumped upon them. Public resources including medical and schools will be strained to breaking point: https://gellerreport.com/2024/09/poorest-neighborhoods-forced-to-bear-the-brunt-of-harris-biden-migrant-crisis-confidential-docs-reveal.html/?lctg=23533907.

The New York Post has reported on how, to take just the example of New York, areas with the poorest face the greatest influx of illegals. What this shows is the ruling elites are not concerned about social justice, which they use as window dressing, but are fully pursuing the Great Replacement agenda. And if it can be done here, it will be done anywhere in the West. Australia is already in the thick of it with mass immigration resulting in tent cities of the homeless in the great accommodation crisis in the country's history.

"Some of the Big Apple's poorest ZIP codes are being forced to bear the greatest brunt of the city's migrant crisis — including a Queens neighborhood saddled with more shelters than any other part of the five boroughs, internal data kept from the public but obtained by The Post reveal.

Long Island City is home to a staggering 23 government-run migrant shelters — 12% of the 193 operating in New York City, according to data tallied off a confidential list of shelter sites used by city agencies.

"The city dropped a bomb on us," said Queensbridge Houses resident Danny Beauford, whose 11101 ZIP code includes a 24th shelter in neighboring Astoria. "The [migrants] are taking over. They're taking over all the parking with their 8,000 scooters. They're disrespectful — peeing in front of everybody. We do that one time, and we're going to jail for a long time."

Hundreds of newly arrived migrants waiting outside Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel for assistance in July 2023.Getty Images

Three of the top five most shelter-saturated ZIP codes — which cover parts of the Jamaica, Queens and East New York, Brooklyn— are among the poorest areas in New York City, with median incomes below $37,300, according to Data Commons.

A Post analysis of an internal list of active shelters used by city agencies as of June 25 also found:

• Queens is home to 70 – or 36% – of the 193 shelters that currently host 65,300 migrants under city care. Another 49 shelters are in Manhattan, 44 in Brooklyn, 25 in The Bronx and five are on Staten Island.
• Jamaica is not too far behind LIC. There's 13 shelters in the 11435 ZIP code that includes Jamaica and neighboring Briarwood; and another seven in the 11434 section of Jamaica.
• Manhattan's 10036 ZIP code, which covers Midtown West, is home to eight shelters.

• 11207 in East New York has six.

• The 10467 (Williamsbridge, Bronx), 12206 (parts of Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn) and 11212 (Brownsville, Brooklyn) each have five.

Mayor Eric Adams' office on Saturday told The Post the number of city shelters is now up to 217, but declined to reveal the additional locations.

None of the city's 193 migrant shelters reviewed by The Post are located in the top five ZIPs by median income in New York City, which covers Tribeca, Battery Park City and other parts of Lower Manhattan, as well as Lincoln Square, records show.

Danny Beauford of the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens said his community is bearing the brunt of NYC's migrant crisis more than any neighborhood in the five boroughs. "They dropped a bomb on us," he said.Stephen Yang

In LIC, the divide is especially stark, where the nearly two dozen shelters are clustered around two public housing projects.

Yet the adjacent 11109 ZIP code in LIC – a skyscraper-filled community that offers spectacular waterfront views of Manhattan's skyline and has among the NYC's priciest real estate – doesn't have a single shelter.

Long Island City, Queens is home to a staggering 23 migrant shelters. Nearly all of them are clustered near two public housing projects. The 11101 ZIP code that includes this section of LIC has 24 shelters, tops in NYC.New York Post

There's 24 migrants shelters in the 11101 ZIP code that includes most of LIC. Two ZIP codes that include Jamaica, Queens are home to 20 shelters combined.New York Post

"Why are y'all sending them here?" wondered Shawarn Shields, one of 7,000 residents at Queensbridge, North America's largest housing project. "Send them to Fifth Avenue! Send them to Park Avenue, but they won't do that.

"Why are you sending where everyone is already living check to check?" said Shields, 56. "They ain't living check to check in Manhattan."

There's 6 migrant shelters in 11207 ZIP code in East New York, Brooklyn.New York Post

There's eight migrant shelters in the 10036 ZIP code in the Midtown West and Clinton sections of Manhattan.New York Post

Besides Queensbridge, this part of LIC is home to another 4,000 public-housing tenants at the nearby Ravenswood Houses.

Residents at both New York City Housing Authority developments say they're located so close to LIC's mega-cluster of shelters that low-income NYCHA tenants typically find themselves competing with migrants for crucial services provided by the city and nonprofits.

Beauford, 36, of Queensbridge, said lines at local food pantries to pick up healthy meals are now "longer" than historically long lines to collect welfare checks.

"People from the projects don't even get food," he said. "[The migrants] come early and tie their little carts up to a gate to hold their spot; then people from the projects show up and are like 'whose carts are these?'"

Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens), who represents the neighborhood, attributed the long lines at the pantries to contracted city vendors supplying "rotten" and "inedible" food at some shelters.

Councilwoman Julie Won (D-Queens), who represents LIC, said Mayor Eric Adams needs to do a better job providing resources to the neighborhood to deal with its influx of migrants.Ron Adar / M10s / MEGA

Local public schools are also exhausting resources trying to educate young migrants, who are far behind in their studies compared to other students of similar ages, and requests by Won's office for more "resources" from City Hall to help handle the new arrivals are routinely ignored, the councilwoman added.

"These shelters are being placed in the poorest part of communities," she said. "[The Adams administration] needs to spread them out, so you're not hurting communities – especially low-income communities."

Nearly 80%, or 153, of the shelters documented in the confidential list are former hotels and other lodging establishments like The Roosevelt in Midtown that are being subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

The others include houses of worship, recreation centers – as well as controversial pop-up "tent city" complexes erected to house 3,000 migrants on Randall's Island; nearly 2,000 at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn; and another 1,000 outside Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.

The city had at least another 84 sites throughout the five boroughs operating as migrant shelters over the past two years that were closed as of two weeks ago, records show. At least three others, including the NYPD's former police academy building in Manhattan, serve as "overflow sites" to house migrants only when needed.

Last year, Mayor Eric Adams attempted to curb the ballooning taxpayer costs to house migrants — now roughly $2 billion of the nearly $5 billion total — by capping how long newcomers could stay in public shelters. Migrant families now have 60 days to find permanent housing and single adults 30 days, but all can reapply to remain in shelters if unsuccessful.

The Adams administration has routinely denied media requests for the locations of its migrant shelters, citing privacy concerns — instead only revealing addresses for 15 designated as "Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers" that provide asylum seekers various social services, and leaving the public to figure out the rest on their own.

Locations are prioritized based on how quickly they can be readied to house migrants, City Hall spokesperson Liz Garcia said, adding the city closed some shelters after contracts with providers expired and continues to open new locations as needed.

"As we continue to try to find safe, viable sites across all five boroughs, we are grateful for every community that has stepped up and welcomed temporary emergency sites," she said.

"And it is clear that our efforts are working, as we have already helped more than 65 percent of asylum seekers who have come into our care take the next steps in their journeys and move out of our shelter system as they seek to be self-sufficient."