Justice Department launches criminal investigation into 2 NYC migrant shelters

The Justice Department has opened a transgression probe into backing and operations astatine 2 Manhattan hotels being utilized arsenic migrant shelters, according to respective reports. 

Federal prosecutors sent subpoenas to the Roosevelt Hotel, which was converted into a migrant structure and intake center, arsenic good arsenic the Stewart Hotel, which was transformed into a migrant shelter, according to CBS News. 

Prosecutors are seeking accusation connected radical who person stayed there, including their names and identifying information.

Asylum seekers enactment up successful beforehand of the historical Roosevelt Hotel, converted into a city-run structure for recently arrived migrant families successful New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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As portion of the investigation, prosecutors besides issued a subpoena to the Hotel Chandler, though this installation is being utilized arsenic a stateless structure and not a migrant shelter, according to reports. 

The subpoenas, issued by the Southern District of New York, notation an alleged usurpation of national migration law, according to Fox 5 NY, which reported that the subpoenas were sent to the hotels and not city officials.

It asked the edifice for the names of entities and individuals liable for the "funding and absorption of the amerciable immigrant/migrant structure program," arsenic good arsenic immoderate contracts oregon agreements related to it, the New York Times reports. 

Hundreds of migrants are seen sleeping extracurricular the Roosevelt Hotel successful Midtown Manhattan connected July 31, 2023. The Justice Department is investigating backing and operations astatine 2 Manhattan hotels being utilized arsenic migrant shelters, according to respective reports. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)

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A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams told the outlet it cannot remark connected immoderate benignant of national investigation. Fox News Digital has reached retired to the mayor’s bureau and the Justice Department for further information.

There are presently less than 45,000 migrants successful the city’s care, down from a precocious of 69,000 successful January 2024. New York City taxpayers person forked retired billions of dollars to wage for lodging for much than 232,000 who person arrived successful New York City since the outpouring of 2022.

Demonstrators protestation against New York City’s effect to the migrant situation extracurricular the Roosevelt Hotel successful Midtown Manhattan. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

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The Roosevelt Hotel, which has astir 1,000 rooms, has processed much than 173,000 migrants since its opening successful May 2023 and has go a focal constituent of the city’s migrant situation implicit the past 2 years, since it was the archetypal halt for galore borderline crossers. 

According to reports, New York City agreed to wage up to $220 cardinal to the hotel, which is owned by the authorities of Pakistan. The woody was reportedly portion of a $1.1 cardinal IMF [International Monetary Fund] bailout bundle to assistance Pakistan debar defaulting connected their planetary debt, according to erstwhile concern banker and writer John LeFevre.

Adams has announced that the structure volition adjacent soon, with the New York Post reporting a closure clip of June.