Nearly 100 Staten Island residents protested on Friday to shut down a migrant shelter in the borough’s Midland Beach neighborhood, vocalizing their anger and
, vocalizing their anger and frustration over an ongoing community issue rife with controversy that has been making headlines for months.and John Tabacco organized the rally after a group of local elected officials said in a letter to city and state officials this week that the shelter is operating in violation of multiple city codes.
“They put the illegals before American citizens and our veterans who lived in that building for a long time. They were kicked out,” Debbie, a protestor, said. The migrants living at the shelter are not “illegal”; they are asylum-seekers who legally sought refuge at the border, and were granted temporary permission to enter the U.S. pending review of their asylum application.
“Staten Island is a unique borough,” he said. “We give our politicians a lot of heat throughout the years for not doing this or that. It’s tough to be a politician. But our local politicians, since we started this fight last year, have been on top of it like nobody’s business.”The migrant shelter at 1111 Father Capodanno Blvd. in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island.
“From the first wave of migrants that came to New York, we have been consistent in opposing shelters opening on Staten Island,” Fossella said. “Staten Islanders did not cause the migrant crisis and should not have to solve the crisis. We said more than one and half years ago that what the city was doing would be unsustainable, and it remains so.”State senator Andrew Lanza speaks at a protest against a migrant shelter on Staten Island on March 8, 2024.
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