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Migrants Won’t Be Putting Their Feet Up At One NYC Hotel Much Longer
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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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The Trump administration will soon push the United Nations (UN) to rewrite the international asylum rules, calling the current framework a “haphazard and chaotic system” routinely abused by bad actors, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed.
U.S. officials are planning an event later this month during the UN’s annual General Assembly to spotlight reforms aimed at curbing asylum abuses that have “disrupted entire regions, enriched criminal cartels and violated the sovereignty of nations,” a State Department spokesperson told the DCNF. Proposed changes include requiring migrants to seek protection in the first country they enter rather than “asylum shopping” for a destination of choice.
“The United States plans to begin a conversation on reforming an outdated, decades-old system that has long been abused by bad actors and economic migrants to fuel the global migration crisis,” the spokesperson told the DCNF.
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Most countries, including the U.S., are signatories to UN treaties that set a framework for those fleeing persecution to seek asylum at another country’s borders. The Trump administration, however, plans to push for “commonsense and necessary reforms” emphasizing that every nation has a right to control its borders, there is no right to receive asylum in a country of choice, asylum is meant to be temporary, sovereign states determine when return is possible, and that every country is obligated to accept return of its citizens, the spokesperson said.
European countries that have taken in millions of refugees, many from Muslim-majority nations, have been grappling with social turmoil and violence linked to migrants. Germany alone — with a population of 83 million — had 3 million refugees as of mid-2024, according to the UN.
The push aligns with President Donald Trump’s broader push to tighten asylum standards and “realign” U.S. policy.
“Cities and small towns alike, from Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and Springfield, Ohio, to Whitewater, Wisconsin, have seen significant influxes of migrants,” Trump wrote in his Jan. 20 executive order temporarily suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which is currently being challenged in court.
“The United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees,” the order continued.
The administration is also expected to set its refugee admission ceiling for fiscal year 2026 this month. More than 100,000 refugees were admitted into the country under former President Joe Biden in fiscal year 2024 — the highest figure since 1994 — according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Meanwhile, Trump has highlighted the violence and discrimination faced by Afrikaners, the minority group of predominantly Dutch descent in South Africa, whose harrowing testimonies the Daily Caller has documented. In May, the president signed an executive order promoting the resettlement of Afrikaners, and several groups have already arrived in the U.S.
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The man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk reportedly lives with a transgender-identifying “partner,” according to Fox News reporter Brooke Singman.
Authorities have arrested Tyler Robinson, 22, accusing him of gunning down Kirk during a TPUSA “Prove Me Wrong” event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, during which the late activist was debating attendees on a variety of topics, including transgenderism. Authorities say that communications between Robinson and the biological male who identified as a transgender female confirm Robinson as the person responsible for the assassination of Kirk, Singman posted on X Saturday.
Kirk had engaged in a debate about transgender mass shooters with Hudson Kozak shortly before being assassinated. The subject became a hot-button issue following the Aug. 27 shooting during an all-school mass held at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that left two children dead.
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Authorities had recovered a rifle containing ammunition that was reportedly marked with left-wing messaging, from a wooded area near the site of Kirk’s fatal shooting. The phrases included “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this you are gay LMAO,” according to Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.
Kirk founded TPUSA, an organization for conservative college and high school students, in June 2012, according to the group’s website. He also hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show,” a podcast that later became a radio show on the Salem Radio Network, according to his biography on TPUSA’s site.
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