Migrants bused from the border to Latest York City have been walking around a Staten Island neighborhood knocking on doors and asking for food, clothes and work after they were put up in hotels there.
The migrants — lots of whom were not ready for the colder temperatures of the Big Apple — are staying at a property in Travis-Chelsea that features the Staten Island Inn, Holiday Inn, and Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriott, sources and staff told The Post over the weekend.
The Staten Island Inn is already completely booked with the illegal immigrants-turned-asylum-seekers, and more buses are expected in the subsequent day or so, a Holiday Inn worker said.
“We do not need clothing and usually are not eating well — we’d like a spot to work,” Venezuelan migrant Geraldine Silva, 31, said outside the Staten Island Inn, where she arrived about per week ago after being bused north from El Paso.
“We’re waiting for garments,” the mother said, shivering beside a handful of children and other migrants while wearing only a t-shirt, sweatpants and flip flops.
Locals said they were never informed that so many migrants can be dropped at their middle-class neighborhood without delay and that the realm is already overwhelmed with the sudden flood of needy families.
Mayor Adams had declared a state of emergency in town Friday over the deluge of migrants to the Big Apple, warning that the influx was pushing town’s shelter system to its breaking point and set to taxpayers $1 billion by next 12 months.
Felipe Viera, 24, and his wife, Gilimersy Perdomo, 26, of Trujillo, Venezuela, told The Post on Sunday that they arrived on Staten Island six days ago.
On their second day here, Viera needed an emergency appendectomy, the couple said.
“Living here has been OK, but we don’t have access to medicine, and the food just isn’t that great. It comes frozen and microwavable,’’ Viera said.
“Nobody has told us how long we will likely be here,’’ he said. “We didn’t expect it to be this cold, but that’s what God decided. All the things we’re wearing is what people gave us after we arrived.”
Newcomers have been going door-to-door knocking on homes, asking for garments and other necessities.
Terrence Jones, a Staten Island resident and business owner, said he was caught off guard when some migrants rang his doorbell multiple times.
“They were speaking Spanish. I just said I only speak English. It was like thrice,” Jones, 56, told The Post.
“They were underdressed, had slippers on, a Red Cross blanket. I believed it was weird,’’ he said.
Andrew Wilkes, a pc programmer who also lives near the hotels, said Saturday that he has received multiple knocks on his door, too.
“I’ve had it occur thrice. The fourth time was today, and [a woman] handed me a paper” identifying herself as a migrant, he said.
“They were dressed for 100-degree weather,” he said of the migrants.
He said his wife was searching for any extra clothes she had around their home to donate.
“What gets me is desperate people do desperate things — that’s what worries me,” he added.
“It’s not the suitable thing to do for the neighborhood, to overload it. Where are they going to go to high school? There’s just one school within the neighborhood.”
The Holiday Inn worker griped, “Why do we now have 50,000 people when you might have given them to a special state?
“We’re 10 minutes from Latest Jersey.
“There’s nothing here,” the worker said. “There’s nothing for them to buy, for them to do their laundry. I don’t know how they’re going to do it.”
The Marriot is predicted to accommodate incoming migrants soon as well, he noted.
Sebastian Bongiovani, 51, co-owner of Verde’s Pizza and Pasta House, has provided free food to the migrants since they arrived.
“What we’ve seen is pregnant women, little children ravenous,” he said.
“What I’ve experienced is people come to my [pizzeria] and ask for food. I tell them to return back at the tip of the day. [A man] got here back together with his pregnant wife and 5 – 6 kids,” Bongiovani said.
“At the tip of the day, these individuals are just hungry,” he added. “People walking around hungry is f–king not good.’’
But he said he was “touched” when a migrant woman got here back the subsequent day to thank him for a considerable amount of free food.
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A person who said he works for a corporation called Garner was on the scene Saturday handing out paperwork to migrants. He said he has worked at various migrant hotels throughout town but Saturday was his first day on the Staten Island site.
“We’re here to get them began, to get them of their room. We’re here to be certain they get where they should fill out their paperwork,” the employee told The Post.
But Enrique Reynoso, 25, who migrated from the Dominican Republic together with his wife Yudelka Encarnacion, 22, and young son, said Sunday, “Before we got here here, we were told that a social employee would come and help us.
“But most of what she tell us is, ‘I don’t have that information for you.’ Our fundamental priority is knowing where we will take our baby to the doctor if he gets sick, where he can go to high school, how I can get a job.
“We were told before we arrived here that we might only be staying here for five days, but among the others here have said they’ve been here for 15 days and still haven’t been told what the subsequent steps can be.
“I’ve been going door-to-door to business asking for a job, but lots of the businesses say that because I don’t have papers, they will’t give me a job.
“I’m frightened because sometimes our son doesn’t just like the food we’re given, so he won’t eat that day, and we don’t have any money to purchase him anything.”
Viera, whose wife had the appendectomy, said getting medicine is a difficulty.
“I’m not accustomed to not having the ability to go to the pharmacy to get medicine,’’ he said.
“Here, every part needs a prescription. Our only option is to call an ambulance if we’d like medical help. There is no such thing as a one to seek advice from about anything. They need to at the least arrange medical services for the youngsters to have them checked out on site — so nobody has to call an ambulance for an earache.
“But we’re grateful to at the least have somewhere warm to spend the night,’’ he said.
The couple have their very own room with a single bed, they said. Families are kept together, typically three or 4 people to a room. A truck delivers food every night: milk, vegetables, fish, cheese, bread, juice.
City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-SI) told The Post on Sunday, “Dropping people off at a highway motel is bad, but dropping folks off who’re desperate for necessities in a neighborhood with few options is significantly worse.
“Where are all these immigration nonprofits that get boatloads of money from town?”
Still, “I’m confident our local churches and non secular organizations will bridge the gap,’’ he said — before later driving as much as one among the entrances to the hotel complex and dropping off clothes himself.
City Hall didn’t reply to a request for comment from The Post on Sunday.
Additional reporting by David Meyer
Migrants bused from the border to Latest York City have been walking around a Staten Island neighborhood knocking on doors and asking for food, clothes and work after they were put up in hotels there.
The migrants — lots of whom were not ready for the colder temperatures of the Big Apple — are staying at a property in Travis-Chelsea that features the Staten Island Inn, Holiday Inn, and Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriott, sources and staff told The Post over the weekend.
The Staten Island Inn is already completely booked with the illegal immigrants-turned-asylum-seekers, and more buses are expected in the subsequent day or so, a Holiday Inn worker said.
“We do not need clothing and usually are not eating well — we’d like a spot to work,” Venezuelan migrant Geraldine Silva, 31, said outside the Staten Island Inn, where she arrived about per week ago after being bused north from El Paso.
“We’re waiting for garments,” the mother said, shivering beside a handful of children and other migrants while wearing only a t-shirt, sweatpants and flip flops.
Locals said they were never informed that so many migrants can be dropped at their middle-class neighborhood without delay and that the realm is already overwhelmed with the sudden flood of needy families.
Mayor Adams had declared a state of emergency in town Friday over the deluge of migrants to the Big Apple, warning that the influx was pushing town’s shelter system to its breaking point and set to taxpayers $1 billion by next 12 months.
Felipe Viera, 24, and his wife, Gilimersy Perdomo, 26, of Trujillo, Venezuela, told The Post on Sunday that they arrived on Staten Island six days ago.
On their second day here, Viera needed an emergency appendectomy, the couple said.
“Living here has been OK, but we don’t have access to medicine, and the food just isn’t that great. It comes frozen and microwavable,’’ Viera said.
“Nobody has told us how long we will likely be here,’’ he said. “We didn’t expect it to be this cold, but that’s what God decided. All the things we’re wearing is what people gave us after we arrived.”
Newcomers have been going door-to-door knocking on homes, asking for garments and other necessities.
Terrence Jones, a Staten Island resident and business owner, said he was caught off guard when some migrants rang his doorbell multiple times.
“They were speaking Spanish. I just said I only speak English. It was like thrice,” Jones, 56, told The Post.
“They were underdressed, had slippers on, a Red Cross blanket. I believed it was weird,’’ he said.
Andrew Wilkes, a pc programmer who also lives near the hotels, said Saturday that he has received multiple knocks on his door, too.
“I’ve had it occur thrice. The fourth time was today, and [a woman] handed me a paper” identifying herself as a migrant, he said.
“They were dressed for 100-degree weather,” he said of the migrants.
He said his wife was searching for any extra clothes she had around their home to donate.
“What gets me is desperate people do desperate things — that’s what worries me,” he added.
“It’s not the suitable thing to do for the neighborhood, to overload it. Where are they going to go to high school? There’s just one school within the neighborhood.”
The Holiday Inn worker griped, “Why do we now have 50,000 people when you might have given them to a special state?
“We’re 10 minutes from Latest Jersey.
“There’s nothing here,” the worker said. “There’s nothing for them to buy, for them to do their laundry. I don’t know how they’re going to do it.”
The Marriot is predicted to accommodate incoming migrants soon as well, he noted.
Sebastian Bongiovani, 51, co-owner of Verde’s Pizza and Pasta House, has provided free food to the migrants since they arrived.
“What we’ve seen is pregnant women, little children ravenous,” he said.
“What I’ve experienced is people come to my [pizzeria] and ask for food. I tell them to return back at the tip of the day. [A man] got here back together with his pregnant wife and 5 – 6 kids,” Bongiovani said.
“At the tip of the day, these individuals are just hungry,” he added. “People walking around hungry is f–king not good.’’
But he said he was “touched” when a migrant woman got here back the subsequent day to thank him for a considerable amount of free food.
Migrant crisis moves North: Here’s what’s happening across the country as border states bus migrants across the US
A person who said he works for a corporation called Garner was on the scene Saturday handing out paperwork to migrants. He said he has worked at various migrant hotels throughout town but Saturday was his first day on the Staten Island site.
“We’re here to get them began, to get them of their room. We’re here to be certain they get where they should fill out their paperwork,” the employee told The Post.
But Enrique Reynoso, 25, who migrated from the Dominican Republic together with his wife Yudelka Encarnacion, 22, and young son, said Sunday, “Before we got here here, we were told that a social employee would come and help us.
“But most of what she tell us is, ‘I don’t have that information for you.’ Our fundamental priority is knowing where we will take our baby to the doctor if he gets sick, where he can go to high school, how I can get a job.
“We were told before we arrived here that we might only be staying here for five days, but among the others here have said they’ve been here for 15 days and still haven’t been told what the subsequent steps can be.
“I’ve been going door-to-door to business asking for a job, but lots of the businesses say that because I don’t have papers, they will’t give me a job.
“I’m frightened because sometimes our son doesn’t just like the food we’re given, so he won’t eat that day, and we don’t have any money to purchase him anything.”
Viera, whose wife had the appendectomy, said getting medicine is a difficulty.
“I’m not accustomed to not having the ability to go to the pharmacy to get medicine,’’ he said.
“Here, every part needs a prescription. Our only option is to call an ambulance if we’d like medical help. There is no such thing as a one to seek advice from about anything. They need to at the least arrange medical services for the youngsters to have them checked out on site — so nobody has to call an ambulance for an earache.
“But we’re grateful to at the least have somewhere warm to spend the night,’’ he said.
The couple have their very own room with a single bed, they said. Families are kept together, typically three or 4 people to a room. A truck delivers food every night: milk, vegetables, fish, cheese, bread, juice.
City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-SI) told The Post on Sunday, “Dropping people off at a highway motel is bad, but dropping folks off who’re desperate for necessities in a neighborhood with few options is significantly worse.
“Where are all these immigration nonprofits that get boatloads of money from town?”
Still, “I’m confident our local churches and non secular organizations will bridge the gap,’’ he said — before later driving as much as one among the entrances to the hotel complex and dropping off clothes himself.
City Hall didn’t reply to a request for comment from The Post on Sunday.
Additional reporting by David Meyer
