Despite NYC Mayor's Severe Warning, Illegal Immigrant Mega Project Goes Ahead | CLIP | Crossroads

Good evening and welcome to Crossroads. New York City has come up with a new solution to help solve the crisis of illegal immigrants who are threatening to bankrupt the city and throw us all into a spiral of crime. Build a huge mega project and let them all live in it for free. What a concept. You know, what better way to dissuade people from entering the country illegally, you know, looking for an easier life, than to promise them an easy life if they enter the country illegally. Now, the new location for this migrant camp will be a vacant office building in Long Island City. It's one of the nicest spots in Queens, just across the water from Manhattan. It's actually close to the area where they were going to build a second Amazon headquarters a few years back, which you might remember would have created between 25,000 to 40,000 good paying jobs for the city. That was, you know, before representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped get it canceled. Because, you know, why have jobs when you can have free housing? But back to that new migrant center, the one they're going to build for them, the five-story building was converted to offices back in 2020. Since then, it's actually been left empty. But because a lot of businesses in New York never came back and their offices are just left empty, essentially, after the pandemic lockdowns, well, it's still there. The plan is to have it soon be the home for about 1,000 illegal immigrants who are on these seemingly indefinite wait lists to claim asylum in the United States. And they're proud of this project. Here's Deputy Mayor William Issam announcing it. We are announcing the opening of the new Humanitarian Relief Center at Austell Place in Long Island City, Queens. Makes this the city's 16th large humanitarian relief center as part of the more than 200 shelter sites the city is operating. Let's think about this. It's been little over a year and we've opened 200 plus sites in support to move more than 100,000 new arrivals who have come to the city since April of 2022. Now, the top four floors of it, they're gonna allegedly be rebuilt for housing. The bottom floor is gonna be a community gathering spot. Already, it's been converted into a respite site, is what they're calling it, that's gonna help shelter people, you know, flooding into the city. And flooding into the city, they sure are. Just since last spring, in fact, New York City has gotten over 110,000 illegal immigrants. And that number just keeps on growing. In fact, it's growing by about 1,000 people every single day. In New York City alone, by the way, not just the whole country. Many of these people are not pulling their own weight. They're looking to the American taxpayer to do that job for them. Now, the city is currently taking care of over 59,000 illegal immigrants and it's looking to cost American citizens a whole lot of money for that, you know, free housing, free food, and all the other luxury services. In January this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the cost of illegal immigrants to the American taxpayer would be about $2 billion, you know, already double what his office had budgeted. And now, about eight months since then, because it's gotten worse, Mayor Adams is estimating it's gonna cost taxpayers $12 billion to house and care for the illegal immigrants over three years. With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care, on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month, and nearly $3.6 billion a year. But this is the floor, not the ceiling. This is only an estimate if the number of migrants in our care stays the same over time. You heard him right, $9.8 million every single day to support our new neighbors. And that number is only likely gonna grow. If things do not change, our new estimates have us spending nearly $5 billion on this crisis in the current fiscal year. That's up from the $1.4 billion we spent last fiscal year, and it nearly equals the budgets of Sanitation Department, our Parks Department, and the FDNY combined, if we do not change course. That means over the course of three fiscal years, our city is projected to have spent more than $12 billion. $12 billion over three years. And notably, that's estimating if they don't continue increasing the number here over that period of time. And also, that might very possibly not even be the end of it. You see that now new mega project, the House of Illegal Immigrants, that's actually just one of many housing projects they're building for them. It's one of many actually still to come. It's what the city is calling Humanitarian Response and Relief Centers. The office building they're renovating in Long Island City, that'll be the 16th one the city has been operating. And that's in addition to the 206 emergency shelters that New Yorkers are financing to give homes to the illegal immigrants. Now those emergency shelters aren't the migrant camps either. They're not the normal ones you'd normally think of. If I were to think migrant housing or migrant camp, I'm thinking military cots, I'm thinking buckets of water with rags for people to wash themselves with. But no, not in these parts. New York City has been using some of its nicest hotels to give free houses to the illegal immigrants. The Roosevelt Hotel, for example, gets the most attention. The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, meaning the money doesn't go to America. It's being used to house illegal alien families in 850 rooms. There's also the 250-room Redberry Hotel. There's the 1,331-room Roe Hotel. The very long list goes on. And many of these have even reportedly been giving people free room service. And by free, I mean free for the illegal immigrants. Myself and others who pay taxes in New York City were the ones picking up the tab for them. Now, those hotels are also pretty dang fancy. Just housing illegal immigrants at two of those hotels, in fact, has cost about $35 million. And this is happening as the city is not only risking going bankrupt, but also at risk of being outright destroyed. And this isn't me saying that, right? The city's being destroyed. The very democratic New York City mayor, Eric Adams, he's the one saying it. We're getting no support on this national crisis, and we're receiving no support. And let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don't see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City. We're getting 10,000 migrants a month. Now, remember, New York City is already technically bankrupt. It has a deficit of about $12 billion. But that's not stopping them. They're spending money like a kid with a credit card. The city tried getting even more money for all this recently. In fact, local leaders tried slipping through a $432 million spending package. Not for American citizens, not for the homeless. No, $432 million to help take care of the illegal immigrants. Then New York City Comptroller Brad Lander shot down that request earlier this week. He wrote in a September 5th statement that aside from the several inconsistencies on whether they actually need that money and whether the money actually represents what they claim they're going to use it for, they say the real goal here is something else. They want money from the federal government. They want to share the load, so to speak. They want the whole country to help pay through federal taxes.