America's homeless veterans are booted from Upstate New York hotel to make room for bus load of migrants as Mayor Eric Adams attempts to alleviate pressure on the Big Apple
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...m-migrants.html
Sharon Toney-Finch, who runs the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, said dozens of homeless veterans were kicked out of hotels in Upstate New York
They were were booted to make room for migrants who have arrived since the end of Title 42 on Thursday
Eric Adams bussed the migrants north to alleviate the pressure on the Big Apple as more than 10,000 people a day across the southern border
By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 02:27 EDT, 13 May 2023 | Updated: 03:43 EDT, 13 May 2023


Dozens of homeless veterans have been kicked out of their upstate New York hotels to make room for an influx of migrants fueled by the expiration of immigration restriction order Title 42.

The struggling veterans were only informed at the start of the week that they would be making way for the migrants, a nonprofit veterans organization told The New York Post.

Sharon Toney-Finch, who runs the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation helping the homeless individuals, said the hotels callously decided to kick out the vets 'due to what's going on with the immigrants.'

The migrants were bussed north by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to alleviate the pressure on the Big Apple as more than 10,000 people a day across the southern border in record numbers.


But the move came at a cost for the homeless veterans living in hotels intended for the migrants, leading Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, to voice her anguish at seeing the situation unfold.

'One of the vets called me on Sunday,' she said. 'He told me he had to leave because the hotel said the extended stay is not available... Then I got another call.'

Toney-Finch said she was left in tears after seeing the veterans swiftly kicked out of the hotels, despite being promised temporary housing for a month.

'We didn't waste any time,' she said of her efforts, revealing the vets still had two weeks left of their stay before they were callously ejected.

Of the 20 veterans being kicked from the hotels, she claimed 15 had been booted from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, Orange County.

The five others were removed from the Super 8 and Hampton Inn & Suites in Middletown, roughly 70 miles north of Manhattan.

All 20 of the displaced ex-military members have been moved to a separate hotel in Hudson Valley, but Toney-Finch said the ordeal has been heartbreaking for the struggling veterans. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

May 13, 2023
Since when do illegal alien invaders get priority over needy Americans?
By Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/202...americans_.html

When did unvetted foreigners violating our border rise to the top of the list of priorities for receiving taxpayer-funded services? And when did homeless veterans, many of whom are homeless because of traumas they endured while serving our country in distant and dangerous places, become sacrificial lambs in order to house these unvetted law-breakers who have no roots here?

Who made this decision?

Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets.

The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.

“Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,’’ said Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation.

Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, created YIT to raise awareness of premature births, as well as helping the homeless and low-income military service veterans in need of living assistance. (snip)

She said the hotels didn’t explicitly say the vets had to move because of the migrants but that it was clear to her that was the case, given the timing.

Thank goodness, the vets weren’t put out on the street, but they were uprooted.

The vets were about two weeks into their hotel stays when they got the boot, she said.

“Now we have to work from ground zero. We just lost that trust [with the vets],” the organizer said.

There is trauma for some:

State Assemblyman Brian Maher, a Republican who helps rep Orange County, said, “Shining a light on this is important because we need to make sure these hotels know how important it is to respect the service of our veterans before they kick [them] out of hotels to make room.”

“They really ought to think about the impact on these people already going through a traumatic time,’’ he told The Post.

So, why toss the deserving vets for strangers? It seems to come down to money -- taken from taxpayers and spent by governments:

Toney-Finch said she believes it all comes down to money.

“They want to get paid’’ more, she said of the hotels, referring to what her group shells out to get the vets housing compared to what the city is paying for each migrant.

“That’s so unfair, because at the end of the day, we are a small nonprofit, and we do pay $88 a day for a veteran to be there,” she said.

While it’s unclear what the city is paying upstate, various reported deals between the Big Apple and Manhattan hotels have called for payments such as $190 a night — part of an estimated $4.3 billion migrant price tag for taxpayers through spring 2024.

Homeless veterans are not the only group to be slighted by the priority given to taxpayer-funded services given to the invaders. Residents of the heavily black South Shore neighborhood of Chicago protested a plan to use a school there to house illegal aliens, mostly single adult males.

Residents of South Shore are taking legal action against-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Quote: Isailedaway wrote in post #3

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Yet Biden is going around saying it is the GOP trying to gut veterans

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NYC pleads with private property owners to house migrants as Title 42 ends, email shows
May 11, 2023 | Arjun Singh | Print Article
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/11/...-shows-1358289/


A key office under New York City Mayor Eric Adams sent an email to a select group of private property owners pleading for emergency space to house migrants coming to the city as a key Trump-era border policy is set to end, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

“We need your help!” begins the email, sent on May 9 to a private contractor by the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services, which states that “New York City is currently experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis” and that it requires spaces that are “available quickly and that could be used by the City temporarily to provide immediate relief to asylum seekers.” The email was sent days before the U.S. government’s Thursday deadline to stop expelling migrants who enter the country illegally under Title 42, which allows foreign nationals to be removed from the U.S. in the event of a “public health emergency.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Eric Adams wants to revoke NYC's 'sanctuary city' status amid massive migrant influx
"We could potentially get thousands of people a day in our city."
Hannah Nightingale
Washington DC
May 15, 2023
https://thepostmillennial.com/eric-adams..._campaign=64483

As New York City deals with a massive influx of illegal immigrants, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he was asking a judge to revisit the city’s sanctuary city law.

"The law of sanctuary city was in place long before I became mayor. I’m following the law. As a law enforcement person, you know, we follow the law," Adams said. "We are now in court now, today, asking the judge to revisit this law to deal with this humanitarian crisis because, even when they decided to put in place that law, no one thought they would be dealing with a humanitarian crisis of this proportion."

The statement comes as hotels in Upstate New York have canceled pre-booked hotel rooms and booted homeless veterans to make space for Adams’ migrants.

The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York abruptly canceled a Florida couple’s 30-room reservation made for their wedding, made a few months ago to accommodate traveling guests.

35-year-old Deanna Mifsud and 37-year-old Gary Moretti intend to get married on June 24 in upstate Wallkill, New York, and made the reservation at the hotel because it was 20 minutes away. Their reservation was canceled, with no help from the hotel staff.

Another pair to be married from Queens said Crossroads also canceled their May 20 reservation.

Also in Newburgh, homeless veterans staying in multiple hotels were told by staff that their temporary housing would not be extended and they would have to leave immediately.

The city of Newburgh, which is roughly 60 miles north of New York City, has become the staging ground for illegal immigrants in the state as Mayor Eric Adams continues to transport them into the county from New York City.

Adams signed an emergency declaration on Wednesday, ahead of Title 42’s expiration, suspending the city’s right-to-shelter rules that find private rooms for illegal immigrants immediately, according to CBS News.-- excerpt, rest at link above --


Yeah, it's a real problem, Eric. Some of us have been living with it for years, enabled by cities like NYC virtue-signalling as sanctuary cities.