Several dozen migrants braved another day on the the sidewalk outside a Midtown hotel, refusing to move to a Brooklyn shelter where they described conditions as “inhumane.'
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.The standoff between migrants and city officials continued as temperatures in the city plummeted to freezing levels.
“That doesn’t look like a shelter, it seems like a prison,” said Ivan Pereira, 33, one of the migrants who toured the site. The mayor’s office and the Office of Immigrant Affairs have blamed the ongoing standoff on misinformation and local activists, who they claim are encouraging the protesters. Gothamist spoke to more than a dozen men participating in the protest. Most described immigrating from Venezuela, though several others said they were fleeing Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.
The men said they vowed to stay outside the Watson indefinitely to demand more dignified accommodations, despite the impending cold front expected to plunge temperatures in the city down to the single-digits by Friday night.
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