Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave [View all]

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Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave
Officials quietly started diverting migrants from the Roosevelt Hotel over the weekend, telling them they could find shelter at a new location where instead they’re only offered a ticket out of town.

Migrants are experiencing a new level of confusion and hopelessness this week as city officials make a renewed push to get them out of shelters and the city altogether.

Migrants who’d been evicted from their shelters and told to reapply were directed to a site in the East Village that turned out to be a “reticketing center” the city opened over the weekend offering plane fares to anywhere in the world. Those who declined were turned away, with some sent on Monday to a “waiting room” an hour away.

But by Tuesday that option had disappeared as well and new arrivals were simply told there was nothing else for them, and nowhere in particular for them to go, if they didn’t want a ticket.

“We’re in the street,” said Carlos Gutéirrez, out front of the reticketing center with all his belongings, deciding what to do next. His Midtown shelter had been vacated by the Fire Department on Monday and he’d been sent to the “welcome center” at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown. Hours later, he was told to go from there to a site in Astoria, which was packed with people, so he was told to return to the Roosevelt. On Tuesday morning, workers there sent him to the East Village, where he was again turned away.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/10/24/migrants-reticketing-roosevelt-hotel-welcome-center-eric-adams/