Hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets on Sunday outside a former Staten Island nursing home to protest its proposed transformation into a migrant shelter.
Midland Beach's former Island Shores Senior Residences is under consideration to house illegal immigrants as New York City is inundated with migrants flooding over the border, according to a report."Don't call them immigrants. Call them 'illegals,'" said one protester, identified as 66-year-old Ray Thaisz, 66."I don't mind people coming here, but they’re coming here illegally, and then we have to support them.
The protest outside Island Shores was put together by former mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Sliwa took part in the protest and was one of the people taken into custody for blocking traffic, according to the report."When I finish, we are gonna block this street," he said to the crowd."You line up behind me ... and the others who know what civil disobedience is. Let's await the instructions of the cops."The notion of transforming the 288-bed residence into a facility for migrants arose last year, the report noted.
"We have already stood up more than 200 emergency sites and run out of space every day," the statement added."We have looked at more than 3,000 sites, and, given the magnitude of this emergency, every option remains on the table. We continue to call on our federal and state partners to provide us with the help we desperately need."
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