New York Mayor Illustrates New York's Priorities

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   GA Andersonposted 23 months ago

   Homeless vets booted out of hotels to accommodate migrants
   
   "More than two dozen U.S. military veterans were kicked to the curb this weekend by hotels in suburban New York City, completely uprooting their lives.
   
   This comes after a busload of 60 migrants were sent to the town of Newburgh by the request of Mayor Eric Adams. The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh is just one of multiple hotels reportedly booting homeless veterans out to accommodate incoming migrants."
   
   Caveat: There are multiple sources reporting this in Google's search report and they all seem to be conservative-leaning outlets. Are the 'facts' true or spun? *shrug
   
   Did homeless vets get evicted to make room for illegal immigrants? Or is this just right-wing BS?
   
   Do the weddings and events that were contracted with the hotel have legal grounds against the hotel for breaking their contracts?
   
   GA

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      Credence2posted 23 months agoin reply to this

      Most rightwing media is BS
      
      But again, in the concept of the free market conservative, it is all about the money.
      
      I read that the hotel gets $190 per night accommodating migrants over the $90 for the homeless vets?

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         wildernessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

         Not quite sure about the "free market conservative" thing here.  This is something being done by liberals, in a very liberal city.  It is paid for by a very liberal government, at taxpayer expense while exclaiming that illegal aliens are good for us and cost nothing.  It is supported by a very liberal President, who continues to claim the border is closed while busing tens of thousands illegals all over the country.
         
         So where does the "conservative" thing come in?  Just because liberals are taking more from the taxpayer to pay for their boondoggles makes it conservative?

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            Credence2posted 23 months agoin reply to this

            All right, Wilderness you don't think that the hotels would rather receive 199 a night rather than 99? I would prefer that homeless veterans receive priority, but from the conservative mindset, I see what you are saying. It is just that someone has to take responsibility while the wretched red states ship them to areas where they may be treated with some humanity instead of like so much freight.
            
            What is all this talk about liberal this and that as if conservatives have a better answer... when they usually don't.

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               wildernessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

               LOL  You're the one that brought conservative vs liberal into it, and that was the ONLY thing I replied to.  I was curious just why you pointedly brought that into it, when everything there was liberal, that's all.
               
               Now you do it again, with the "wretched red states" send them to a liberal state...where homeless vets are removed to give their rooms to illegal aliens.  Just which one is "wretched"?  The completely overwhelmed border states or NY, with their tiny portion of illegals to care for, and must kick homeless vets to the curb to help illegal aliens?
               
               I know which one I would call "wretched"!

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         GA Andersonposted 23 months agoin reply to this

         But what about the point of the OP? The picture presented to America: Homeless vets evicted to accommodate illegal immigrants.
         
         The OP had few details and a caveat about the source, so the questions were real. Did you find any answers other than the conservative/capitalist ($100 more in the pocket) criticism?
         
         There is another NY suburban community in the news for fighting the Mayor's plans to convert an old school and bus illegal immigrants to their community. And a couple more suburban communities complaining about losing their neighborhood parks and playgrounds to accommodate illegal immigrant 'Respite Centers' (that's what they're calling the tent camps they are setting up). The point being the harm being done to citizens to accommodate the illegal immigrants being allowed in with no vetting. Looks like they have to go to court. Could these issues be of the same nature? Is Adams asking or telling these communities? Did this hotel get $190, was it the going rate or was it a bonus rate from Adams? Did the hotel have a choice?
         
         There are a lot of questions and few details, yet you found the one you needed.
         
         GA

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            Credence2posted 23 months agoin reply to this

            Yes, the problems seem complicated. When more of those questions and details see the light of day, I will revise my answers.

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            wildernessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

            This was on the nightly news (no it wasn't Fox), so presumably the source is good.

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   Ken Burgessposted 23 months ago

   Mayor Eric Adams is “now in court, today, asking a judge to revisit” NYC’s sanctuary city law.

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      wildernessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

      Seems the sanctuary declaration is something they don't want to pay for after all.  Let other locations do it, but not NYC.
      
      Reminds me of Martha's Vineyard, where they went through the same thing and shoved the illegals out of town just as Adams is doing.

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      GA Andersonposted 23 months agoin reply to this

      I read earlier, that he also, by executive order, suspended some of NYC's homeless and immigrant housing requirements.
      
      These folks are getting a dose of the reality that they claimed the border states were making up.
      
      GA

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         wildernessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

         How is it possible that they did not realize just how bad it was, and was going to get when they threw open the doors and invited everyone in?

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            GA Andersonposted 23 months agoin reply to this

            They never expected anyone to take them up on their declarations.
            
            GA ;-)

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         Ken Burgessposted 23 months agoin reply to this

         Not near enough of a dose.
         
         The governors of Texas and Florida should call out the National guard and use every deuce and a half and bus they have to load up every illegal immigrant they can to drop off in NYC and DC.

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   IslandBitesposted 23 months ago

   Eric Adams asks for investigation into disputed story about homeless veterans being displaced by immigrants
   
   “It is really troubling,” Adams said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” “I’m asking our local and state authorities to investigate what happened here. It was clearly fabricated and it was a conscious decision to fabricate it, from what we are getting. A thorough investigation will determine if any criminality is involved.”
   
   “But there was never a moment where veterans were displaced. We would never do that. And those who put together this scheme and put together this plan to really put a negative light on what we coordinated to do to send migrants throughout the entire state, a real decompression strategy,” Adams added. “We’ve never displaced veterans, someone fabricated that story. And it was blasted across our local tabloids and papers and it’s really unfortunate that someone would do something like this.”
   
   Adams’ remarks comes after New York state lawmaker Brian Maher (R) told The Times-Union that the story of hotels in upstate New York throwing out homeless veterans to make room for migrants bused from the city was false.
   
   Maher said that Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of Orange County nonprofit Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, made the original claim that 15 homeless veterans were thrown out of the Crossroads Hotel and another five were forced out of two other upstate hotels.
   
   The newspaper reported that Toney-Finch was unraveled emotionally when asked to provide evidence on the claim, failing to do so including providing bank statements to Maher.
   
   One of the purported veterans said that he was paid by Toney-Finch to lie about being thrown out, according to the Times-Union. The Crossroads and the two other upstate hotels confirmed that they never had dealings with Toney-Finch’s nonproft or never housed any veterans.
   
   https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc … mmigrants/

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      GA Andersonposted 23 months agoin reply to this

      I heard a news blurb about this. Now we wait to find out who's telling the truth.
      
      GA

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         IslandBitesposted 23 months agoin reply to this

         I think there's no doubt who lied.
         
         Questions began to arise when local paper Mid-Hudson News was told by the hotel’s manager that “there were no veterans at the hotel, none were kicked out and no other guests were told to vacate.” Then, on Thursday night, seven homeless men contacted Mid-Hudson News and said they had been promised payment of $200 each to pose as veterans who were kicked out of the hotel in favor of the migrants.
         
         On Friday, Maher (New York state lawmaker Brian Maher (R), who went to FOX in the first place) issued a mea culpa, claiming that he “believed [Toney-Finch and the veterans] at their word.”
         
         “I had absolutely no knowledge of any wrongdoing and believed that their stories were real until a phone conversation with Sharon yesterday afternoon when she explained to me that this did not happen the way she purported it to,” Maher told Mid-Hudson News.
         
         According to Maher, Toney-Finch admitted she lied about the situation and said she did it “to help the veterans.” She told The Daily Beast that “we didn’t pay any fake actors” and said she wanted to “apologize for any confusion that’s dealing with the veterans and asylum seekers.”
         
         The Mid Hudson article:
         Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam

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            GA Andersonposted 23 months agoin reply to this

            Well, I like my eggs over-easy, so it works that you were the one to follow-up. ;-)
            
            GA

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