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By: C.Zawadi Morris<\/a><\/p>\n

Around 70\u00a0Clinton Hill residents gathered at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Hall Street Tuesday evening to express anger and concern, following\u00a0the double homicide shooting of two migrants<\/a>\u00a0outside of the emergency migrant shelter complex and a nearby park late Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere was emotional and tense. Police officers stood close by, watching along the southeast corner of Hall Street, while a diverse group of residents held signs that read \u201cToo Big to Be Safe,\u201d and shouting \u201cEnd the Lease! End the Lease!\u201d<\/p>\n

Their biggest complaints were that the shelter populations were too large and concentrated and should be spread out more evenly around the city. They also suggested that the lease agreements made between the city with\u00a0real estate developer RXR<\/a>\u00a0for the Hall Street shelter was an inflated monetary exchange, with little consideration of the negative impact it would have on the migrants and local residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe owners of RXR received $45 million to lease the building for 18 months,\u201d said\u00a0Renee Collymore<\/a>, the Democratic liaison for the 57th Assembly District, who organized the rally.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the building even worth $45 million?\u201d she asked.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n

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The gun deaths were\u00a0the boiling point of frustration for the residents\u00a0who pleaded for immediate action from lawmakers for what they had been\u00a0saying for months\u00a0<\/a>was a ticking time bomb: an overcrowded shelter in their small community that has fostered loitering, vagrancy and crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur neighborhood has gone through a series of hurtful events,\u201d shouted Collymore from the microphone. \u201cThere\u2019s no way migrants should be having sexual intercourse outside in the streets. This is a bad representation of the neighborhood of Clinton Hill!”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done everything we can do to help the migrants,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve given them food; we\u2019ve given them clothes; we\u2019ve given them money \u2026 But how much more can we do? This is not on us! This is on local government to take care of the migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hall Street shelter, which sits adjacent to a second migrant shelter located at 29 Ryerson Street, has 3,200 residents. Together, the two shelters account for close to 4,000 migrants\u00a0in one city block.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has stated publicly on several occasions that there is no more physical space in New York City to accommodate additional asylum seekers.\u00a0He has appealed to federal and state officials for support<\/a>, including Governor Kathy Hochul, to explore the possibility of relocating migrants to upstate New York communities. But the proposal has been met with mixed responses and has not been implemented.<\/p>\n

Still, for local residents at the rally, they said something needs to happen immediately. They traded the microphone to express their frustration:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDear Mayor Adams \u2026 I live on Hall Street a half-block from that giant prison complex that they call a shelter,\u201d said Tim Walker, a Clinton Hill resident for 12 years. \u201cIt has been an escalating disaster for more than a year now. You know this, mayor, because we\u2019ve been telling you. Just last month, I wrote to you and your team on behalf of my block after a highly publicized stabbing. \u2018It is only a matter of time,’\u00a0I said, ‘before someone is actually killed.\u2019 None of you even bothered to respond. As far as I\u2019m concerned, we do not have a migrant crisis; we have a leadership crisis, and it is at City Hall!\u201d<\/p>\n

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A resident aserts: 400 asylum seekers on one block is sustainable; 4,000 in one block is dangerous.
\nPhoto: C.Zawadi Morris\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Carlos Aguila, a Clinton Hill resident for more than 20 years, said it wasn\u2019t the migrants\u2019 fault and that the community was just too small to sustain 3,000+ migrants: \u201cNo one is anti-immigrant here whatsoever. It\u2019s unfair to them, because there just ain\u2019t enough jobs and businesses to offer them opportunities so they can acclimate to our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aliya McKee Martinez, a resident from Hall Street said, \u201cI\u2019ve been crying a lot the last few days, because a loss of life is tragic, and I\u2019m just distraught about it. Shame on you Mayor Adams! Two lives have been lost. How many more before you right-size this shelter? It\u2019s too big to be safe, and we demand immediate action!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the last straw,\u201d shouted Collymore. \u201cWe are demanding that Council Member Crystal Hudson use her legislative power to write a bill to reverse the\u00a0Sanctuary City Law<\/a>s!\u201d<\/p>\n

In February, a bill was proposed to repeal some of the sanctuary city policies established during former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s tenure, which restrict local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The\u00a0proposal aimed\u00a0to allow law enforcement to work more closely with ICE, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, particularly concerning individuals suspected of serious crimes.<\/p>\n

Mayor Adams has expressed support for loosening these restrictions<\/a>, advocating for a return to earlier standards where cooperation was more extensive. However, the\u00a0proposal faced\u00a0strong opposition from the City Council’s progressive wing,\u00a0who are unlikely to support such changes\u200b.<\/p>\n

In his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, the mayor restated that\u00a0he would not\u00a0<\/a>downsize the complex and move migrants to other areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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