Controversy continues to brew over the city's decision to move asylum seekers from Midtown hotel to a Brooklyn shelter. On Wednesday, City Council members visited the new facility. But what do the men who have moved there think? Christinafantv found out.
"The overwhelming number of them move. From my analysis about 30 are still there, and I'm not even sure they are migrants. There are some agitators that just really ... I think is doing a disservice to the migrants," Adams said.Mayor Adams' plan to use Brooklyn Cruise Terminal as emergency shelter for asylum seekers faces backlash"Nobody wants to be sleeping with 999 people in the same room.
Activists and council members say there's no reason the city can't open up more hotels for the asylum seekers, adding the move to Brooklyn is adding to their trauma.
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