Fired-up New Yorkers push feds to close troublesome migrant tent city: ‘No more’
NY Post
More than 100 Big Apple residents and elected officials rallied outside Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field on Sunday, calling on city leaders to shut down a troublesome migrant tent city at the federal site.
Fired-up locals draped in US flags converged on the massive site in a 90-vehicle long caravan and demanded that City Hall not renew a lease for the 2,000-bed migrant shelter that has been the focus of neighborhood complaints since it opened last year.
“Illegals are being prioritized over New Yorkers and many, many New Yorkers feel that this crisis is just not debatable and there’s no end in sight,” Marine Park resident Brenda Lee told The Post.
“We need to speak up about exactly what, you know, where this is gonna go and where, how is it going to end?” Lee said. “Is it gonna end?”
Cars and trucks pulled up to the scene with signs hanging from their windows reading “preserve the American dream” and “stop migrant crime” – as well as “revoke the lease to Floyd Bennett.”
“There are other places now that the migrants from that base camp can go,” city Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Brooklyn) told protesters at the site. “We need to be able to go to our national park and enjoy it. That was taken from us.
