Migrants use charity cash to flee NYC when they can’t get into shelter
August 11, 2022
The city’s shelter system is too dysfunctional for these migrants!
Four asylum-seekers who braved trekking to the US-Mexico border — and across it — got so fed up waiting for beds in New York City that they used charity money to get out and head to Washington, DC, The Post has learned.
The unidentified men arrived in the Big Apple within the past three weeks and went to the city-run Bellevue Men’s Shelter, which also serves as an intake center for the Department of Homeless Services, sources said.
“They were either turned away or confused by the situation because there were a lot of people waiting for intake that day,” a source said.
The men — who don’t speak English — returned to the shelter “a few times” during about two and a half days in the city, but “ultimately they decided to go to Washington,” the source said.
They’d spent a night in the nation’s capital while traveling to New York and they used $50 gift cards they received from Catholic Charities to pay for their bus fares back there, the source said.
The Post exclusively reported this week that City Hall was scrambling to open a dedicated intake center for migrants with enough room to house 600 families in Midtown by Monday.
"Other migrants interviewed by The Post in San Antonio, Texas, said they were also hoping to get to New York City.
“The only thing I want right now is to be able to stay in a shelter where I can stay for at least a week, so I can work, and earn a little money to find a place to live for my family,” said Cesar Sandoval Guerrero, 26.
Guerrero said he, his wife and their kids, ages 3 and 4, left Venezuela on June 19 becausehe couldn’t afford to live on his wages as a National Guard member and was told to extort bribes from his neighbors to make ends meet.
“I will work anywhere,” he said."
Sauce for DC invasion/more: https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/migrants-use-charity-cash-to-flee-nyc-when-they-cant-get-into-shelter/