NYC Considers Erecting A Tent City In Central Park To House Illegal Immigrants: Report

As New York City struggles to house more than 50,000 illegal immigrants who have flooded the city, officials are reportedly weighing the option to place many of them in tents in Central Park. 

Anne Williams-Isom, NYC’s deputy mayor for Health and Human Services, was asked at a press conference Wednesday about housing illegal immigrants in city parks and responded by saying that “everything is on the table” as the city reviews around 3,000 possible locations to place them, Bloomberg reported. According to the Gothamist, sources familiar with the city’s deliberations said one of those locations is Central Park, where an estimated 42 million tourists visit each year. 

“We are constantly looking at sites to see how we can accommodate people, but we need support and we think that the system is at a breaking point,” Williams-Isom said. 

Since April of last year, more than 90,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in New York City. As of last month, about 55,000 were still being housed on the city’s dime, causing New York’s homeless shelters to hit capacity. Combined with the large homeless population, the city is now sheltering a record 105,800 people.

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly raised the alarm over the situation as officials consider extreme measures to accommodate the influx. More than 100 illegal immigrants have been sleeping on the street outside of the Roosevelt Hotel since last weekend. The hotel serves as a humanitarian relief center, housing illegal immigrants and providing them with food and access to vaccines, but the hotel has hit its capacity. 

“From this moment on, it’s downhill,” Adams said at a press conference Monday. “There is no more room.”

At the press conference, Adams warned that the illegal immigration crisis “is going to come to a neighborhood near you” as he called for more proactive measures from the federal government. 

“We need to control the border,” he added. “We need to call a state of emergency, and we need to properly fund this national crisis.”

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Adams suggested that he was opposed to erecting tents for illegal immigrants, saying the city needs to “localize this madness” and “figure out a way of how we don’t have what’s in other municipalities, where you have tent cities all over the city.”

The city estimates that it will spend $4.2 billion to house and care for illegal immigrants by the middle of 2024. Adams continues to push the Biden administration to do more to help the city deal with the crisis. City officials want the White House to grant illegal immigrants expedited work authorizations and the federal government to send newly arrived illegal immigrants to multiple cities across the country in hopes of curbing the influx in New York. 

Mairead Elordi contributed to this report. 

Sheriff Expects Trump To Get Mugshot If Indicted In Georgia

Georgia‘s Fulton County sheriff said he anticipates Donald Trump will get a mugshot if the former president is indicted in a 2020 election investigation in the state.

“Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status, we’ll have a mugshot ready for you,” said Sheriff Pat Labat, according to local ABC affiliate WSB-TV.

If the prediction holds true, it could mean Trump would get photographed during booking for the first time across multiple indictments on the state and federal levels.

After first being indicted in New York, Trump was fingerprinted when he was processed in April when he appeared for an arraignment in a hush-money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. At the time, Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign began fundraising with a fake mugshot image and the phrase “NOT GUILTY” in all capital letters.

Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has spent more than two years investigating alleged efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, told local NBC affiliate WXIA over the weekend her team is “ready to go” and would “hold true” to her stated commitment to making “big decisions” during the Fulton County Superior Court’s fourth term of court, which spans July 11 to September 1.

Willis, a Democrat, also said the sheriff was being “smart” in making safety preparations. “I’m not willing to put any of the employees or the constituents that come to the courthouse in harm’s way,” Willis added.

An indictment in Georgia would be the fourth Trump has faced this year. Besides the indictment in New York, Trump also got indicted in cases related to his handling of sensitive documents and the 2020 election brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

In June, Trump was again fingerprinted before his Florida arraignment hearing in the documents case, but deputy marshals did not take a mugshot because he was easily recognizable, CNN reported. Trump is expected to be arraigned in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the federal charges in the 2020 case.

Trump, who is the GOP front-runner in the 2024 race for the White House, broadly denies any wrongdoing and claims politically motivated forces are targeting him across multiple investigations.

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