Rogue migrants set up illegal camp outside Randall’s Island site: ‘Every day we come back, there’s more’
NY Post
Migrants booted from Big Apple shelters have been setting up an illegal mini-tent city outside Randall’s Island’s housing site — despite the Adams administration’s best efforts to thwart them.
“For the past month or so, we will come here, and there’ll be one or two tents set up, and we’ll ask them to take them down,” a city Parks Department enforcement officer told The Post at the site on Sunday.
“But every day when we come back, there’s more.”
Parks workers on Sunday morning broke down one shabby encampment that had been housing about 21 asylum-seekers barred from the island’s 2,000-bed tent city erected in August after timing out on its 60-day residency limit.
The rogue migrants had set up their own tarps and tents on a grassy strip just outside the tent city, even erecting tables to peddle coffee and hot chocolate to other asylum-seekers legally living in the site’s massive sanctioned tents.
“We’ll move them out and correct the situation that’s been developing, but when I came back from vacation a few days ago, there were seven tents joined together by big tarps, and as you can see, more and more scooters,” the Parks officer said.
