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Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis on Wednesday praised the court ruling that would force the city to clear out a temporary migrant shelter in the borough.
Judge Wayne Ozzi on Tuesday called into question the city’s 42-year-old “right to shelter” policy, arguing against the “consent decree” that has been interpreted as a mandate to provide shelter. He argued the decree is meant to provide emergency housing for New Yorkers, and therefore, does not apply to migrant asylum seekers.
A 95-year-old Korean War veteran said he was given less than two months’ notice to figure out where he was going to live after the nursing home he resided in was sold to become a facility for undocumented migrants.
Frank Tammaro was one of the lucky ones.
When the owners of his former assisted living facility, Island Shores Senior Residence in Midland Beach, made it clear he was no longer welcome, Tammaro, 95, had a strong support system in place. After a brief stay at another senior living center, he now resides with his daughter, Barbara Annunziata.
A new law approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul Wednesday will allows New York voters to cast ballots by mail instead of in-person for the 2024 elections — but the ink wasn’t even dry when Republican bigwigs sued to block it from taking effect.
The law will have the state Board of Elections create a program giving all registered voters the opportunity to vote early by mail in advance of an election.
Dozens of city lawmakers and supportive constituents filed a lawsuit early Tuesday seeking to block Mayor Adams’ administration from housing as many as 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field, a mostly defunct airfield in southern Brooklyn that would cost taxpayers $1.7 million in monthly rent.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Military bases like Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton would be denied funding for migrant shelters if legislation, introduced by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn), becomes law.
The bill, which Malliotakis introduced with Rep. John Carter (R-Tx.) on Thursday, would block federal money from being used to house immigrants not lawfully admitted to the U.S.
As New York City deals with the ongoing migrant crisis, sites around the city have been used or proposed to be used to house the new arrivals.
A bipartisan legislative push is afoot on Capitol Hill to prohibit all U.S. employers from forcing their retired workers into Medicare Advantage coverage — a proposal that could spell trouble for Mayor Adams, who’s trying to mandate the privatized health insurance program for New York City’s 250,000 municipal retirees.
New York counterterrorism, police and fire officials were questioned at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan Tuesday about whether the approximately 110,000 migrants who have arrived in the Big Apple from the southern border complicate security posture 22 years after the 2001 terror attacks.
The New York City immigrant crisis has renewed the calls for Staten Island to secede from New York City, prompting Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) to lead the charge earlier this week.
Following a series of protests across Staten Island over proposed shelters sites for asylum seekers, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis appeared on “Mornings On 1” Wednesday to address the migrant crisis and voice concerns from her constituents.
The protests, sparked by fears over the safety of local communities, have included strong language against asylum seekers, prompting Mayor Eric Adams to condemn them as racist and “challenging to hear.”
However, Malliotakis said residents are afraid because of what they have heard from other migrant sites.