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Migrants Won’t Be Putting Their Feet Up At One NYC Hotel Much Longer
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Jason Hopkins
A notorious hotel that was once at the epicenter of New York City’s illegal immigration crisis will begin shutting down its migrant arrival center, signaling how much has changed since migrants first began arriving en masse to the Big Apple under the Biden administration.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday his administration is closing the Roosevelt Hotel’s Asylum Arrival Center and Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center. The decision follows a monumental drop in the number of asylum seekers arriving weekly in the city, a change the mayor attributed to sound policies that managed the crisis.
“Thanks to the successful strategies we implemented in our city and policies we advocated for nationally, we’ll be closing this site that served new arrivals since the height of this crisis in 2023,” Adams announced on social media.
“Our city was receiving 4,000 migrants each week during the height of the crisis, and now we’re down to approximately 350 new arrivals each week,” Adams continued.
While the immigration crisis affected every major city and state during the Biden administration, New York City — the largest sanctuary city in the United States — quickly became the destination of choice for hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving at the southern border. In total, over 230,000 migrants have flocked to the Big Apple since the spring of 2022, costing the city around $7 billion in expenses.
In response to the crisis, New York City officials in 2023 reopened and repurposed the Roosevelt Hotel — which had closed down during the COVID-19 pandemic — into a migrant shelter. More than 75% of the asylum seekers who ended up in the city’s care were processed at the Roosevelt Hotel, Adams said.
The Roosevelt Hotel, which soon became a symbol of the city’s migrant dilemma, also served as a nexus of illegal migrant crime. Dozens of migrants were arrested at the once-swanky hotel in just the first few months it re-opened as a migrant shelter and groups of migrants beat down two New York Police Department officers in May.
The hotel was also the temporary home of Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal migrant who lived at the location in 2023 on the taxpayer dime before taking a “humanitarian” flight provided by city officials to Georgia. Ibarra was later found guilty of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley in what authorities described as an attempted rape that became deadly as the 22-year-old was out for a run.
The Roosevelt Hotel is one of many migrant shelters in New York City that will be closing down in the coming months, Adams said Monday. By June, city officials will have shut down a total of 53 emergency migrant shelters.
“The fact that, within a span of year, we are closing 53 sites and shuttering all of our tent-based facilities shows both our continued progress and our ability, when faced with unprecedented challenges, to do what no other city can,” the mayor said in a public statement.
Amid the ongoing migrant crisis in the city, Adams has grown increasingly hawkish on illegal immigration — at least in rhetoric. He’s met with Trump administration border czar Tom Homan on two separate occasions and has voiced support for rolling back sanctuary city policies that restrict cooperation between local police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Following his second meeting with Homan earlier in February, the mayor declared that he was preparing an executive order that would allow ICE agents onto Rikers Island, the city’s largest jail. However, no executive order has yet to materialize since that announcement.
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President Donald Trump expressed frustration Tuesday after Iran broke a ceasefire, prompting retaliation from Israel during a gaggle with reporters on the White House lawn.
Trump announced the ceasefire Monday, saying it was supposed to take effect at 1 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, but Iran fired missiles at Israel Tuesday. Trump vented, saying the countries had been “fighting so long” they couldn’t make peace.
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“You know, when I say okay, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour just drop everything you have on them,” Trump said. “So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land, I’m not happy about that.”
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don’t know what the fuck they are doing,” Trump added.
The United States struck facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan related to Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons early Sunday morning local time, using as many as 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators in the operation, which involved a 37-hour flight by seven B-2A Spirit bombers.
The American strikes came ten days after Israel launched a military operation targeting the Iranian nuclear program. Iran has responded with repeated missile attacks on Israeli cities and a refusal to resume negotiations over its efforts to pursue nuclear weapons.
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“The Supreme Court put to rest any question about whether fuel manufacturers have a right to challenge unlawful electric vehicle mandates”
The Supreme Court sided Friday with oil companies seeking to challenge California’s electric vehicle regulations.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court allowed energy producers to continue their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve California regulations that require manufacturing more electric vehicles.
“The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation, and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the majority opinion. “In light of this Court’s precedents and the evidence before the Court of Appeals, the fuel producers established Article III standing to challenge EPA’s approval of the California regulations.”
Kavanaugh noted that “EPA has repeatedly altered its legal position on whether the Clean Air Act authorizes California regulations targeting greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles” between Presidential administrations.
“This case involves California’s 2012 request for EPA approval of new California regulations,” he wrote. “As relevant here, those regulations generally require automakers (i) to limit average greenhouse-gas emissions across their fleets of new motor vehicles sold in the State and (ii) to manufacture a certain percentage of electric vehicles as part of their vehicle fleets.”
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals previously rejected the challenge, finding the producers lacked standing to sue.
“The Supreme Court put to rest any question about whether fuel manufacturers have a right to challenge unlawful electric vehicle mandates,” American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson said in a statement.
“California’s EV mandates are unlawful and bad for our country,” he said. “Congress did not give California special authority to regulate greenhouse gases, mandate electric vehicles or ban new gas car sales—all of which the state has attempted to do through its intentional misreading of statute.”
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