New York City is shutting down the last of its notorious migrant hotels, marking the end of a dark chapter.
Under former President Joe Biden’s open border policy, the crisis saw well over 200,000 illegal aliens flood the city.
With border crossings at record lows under President Donald Trump, the city announced the end of its $5.13 million taxpayer-funded contract with the Row NYC Hotel.
Mayor Eric Adams told The New York Post:
“We are proud to share that we will be closing another site — the Row Hotel, the last hotel in the city’s emergency shelter system — marking yet another major milestone in our administration’s recovery from this international humanitarian crisis.”
As the border crisis peaked, New York City contracted with over 200 hotels and other make-shift facilities to house 238,000 foreign nationals citywide.
The shelters ruined the quality of life for many New Yorkers, bringing riotous parties, gang activity, and litter as taxpayers were forced to pay over $8 billion to care for the illegal aliens.
New York’s luxurious accommodations for illegal aliens came to symbolize the backwardness of the Democrats’ immigration agenda.
The open border policy sowed chaos nationwide before it was forcefully rejected by voters in a crushing defeat last year.
The Row was the first luxury hotel in the city to be converted into a shelter in October 2022.
The 1,300-room hotel is a short walk from Times Square, which is still feeling the impact of migrant crime.
Locals told the New York Post they are relieved the shelter at The Row is finally closing, noting the damage it caused to local businesses.
“Hallelujah,” one renter told the Post.
“I’m happy that it’s happening.
“We pay a lot of money to live here, and it doesn’t seem fair.”
“There are people sitting here all day, littering, leaving food waste, water bottles…,” the resident said.
“A lot of them have children, and there are women sitting around here smoking weed all day, the children are just playing on the street, on the bike lanes.”
Since Trump began his second term, border crossings have swiftly fallen to record lows, hitting a new low in July.
With the border crisis over, Adams has shut down 64 migrant sites, and the remaining 35,400 migrants have been absorbed into the city’s homeless shelters, which house 92,000.
The lingering effects of the Biden-era crisis are still being felt across the city.
Two Dominican men were arrested in July for shooting an off-duty Border Patrol agent in a park on the Hudson River.
The city’s potential next mayor, Democrat Zohran Mamdani, is a radical leftist who has pledged to keep immigration agents out of NYC if elected.
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