Syndication: El Paso Times
(New York, NY) — Some New York City Council members want to house the migrants being bused into the city in shuttered churches and hotels. They are pushing back on the City Hall plan to send them to a tent city on Randall’s Island. City Council Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala says Randall’s Island is too far from public transportation and potential jobs for the migrants. Council members say they have identified a number of closed hotels that could be a better place to house the families being sent here for the U.S Southern border. Some shuttered churches could also be set up as temporary housing.
