According to the newspaper, a high school soccer game scheduled to be held on a public field in East Harlem was canceled after a group of immigrants refused to leave the field despite the arrival of authorities. new york post.
“I directly told them to quit, and some of them considered it, but four or five of them said, ‘You’re not,'” said Erik Johansson, coach of the Manhattan Kickers’ 17-year-old boys’ travel team. “I said,” he said. I know, well, you don’t have to leave, you can do whatever you want. ”
Approximately 40 boys from both teams showed up at Thomas Jefferson Park on Sunday, April 14, for the game scheduled for 5 p.m., according to reports.
The Kickers were scheduled to play FA Euro New York.
However, things did not go as planned when about 30 men, believed to be African immigrants and who spoke little English, refused to leave the pitch. Even when the police showed up, the immigrants remained unfazed.
To resolve the dispute, authorities asked for a copy of the club team’s city permit, the newspaper said.
“If you show up with two teams in uniform, a referee and two coaches, usually no one wants to show you their permit,” Johansson said.
“Even if the match is over, we don’t know if they’re waiting, so even if the cops kick them out, the match might not be over. So we all agree that this is too dangerous.” “We did,” Johansson added.
The match had already been delayed by 30 minutes after Johansson’s assistant coach was able to obtain a copy of the permit from the police. However, both teams felt the situation was dangerous and agreed to cancel the match.
daily mail report Parents who attended the game claim they no longer want to play on the field because they felt unsafe. “I’ve seen this before and I know how bad it can be,” said Johansson, whose native Sweden has seen a large influx of immigrants in recent years.
New York City has accepted more than 175,000 immigrants and currently hosts 67,500. However, to ease overflow, these migrants are limited to a 30-day stay.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has criticized the Biden administration’s response to the sudden influx of migrants into sanctuary cities. Adams called the migrant situation “one of the biggest humanitarian crises this city has ever seen.”
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