The Adams administration is cracking down, including imposing curfews on more migrant shelters. It comes just days after a 15-year-old immigrant was handcuffed for allegedly shooting a tourist and pointing a gun at police during a Times Square robbery.
Starting Monday, 20 respite centers run by Housing Preservation and Development in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx will require immigrants to check in by 11 p.m. each night and stay indoors until 6 a.m. The paper reported.
The rule will affect more than 3,600 immigrants, nearly half of whom are single adult men.
The directive mirrors standard curfews in place at homeless shelters across the Big Apple and is intended to allow for more efficient bed capacity management.
“New York City continues to lead the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, including the asylum seekers we manage and the people around the emergency shelters we manage. That includes prioritizing the health and safety of both New Yorkers living in our communities,” City Hall said. a spokesperson said in a statement. “
Similar to the curfews already in place at traditional DHS shelters and NYCEM resorts that serve immigrants and New Yorkers experiencing long-term homelessness, HPD emergency locations will begin curfews starting this week. We are planning to introduce a ban. This policy will allow the City to more efficiently manage the capacity of immigrants in its care. ”
The Adams administration has been touting plans for a widespread curfew for months, implementing the rule in four shelters in January.
It was Mayor Eric Adams’ first major step in addressing complaints from neighbors that they had been attacked by desperate asylum seekers who went door to door begging for food and clothing.
The sudden expansion of respite centers to 20 more locations comes after a 15-year-old immigrant staying at a Manhattan shelter allegedly shot a Brazilian tourist in the leg during an attack on a JD Sports store in Times Square. This was just a few days after the incident. He is then accused of firing at an NYPD officer who chased him down a busy street.
Prosecutors said Jesús Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa and his mother quickly packed up their belongings and fled to Yonkers, where they were arrested the next day.
Most of the affected shelters are in Manhattan, including the Imperial Hotel, Gatsby Hotel, and Redford Hotel.
Five of the shelters, which accept only single adult men, house nearly half of the migrants affected by the new curfew rules.
The curfew was originally put in place in response to complaints from New York City residents who live near immigrant shelters and centers, where they complained of “invasion” of immigrants who were knocking on their doors day and night and begging for money. We’ve been talking about this for several weeks. .
