"Cannot be at the expense of our youth": Thousands of New Yorkers call on Eric Adams to stop construction shelters for illegals in sports venues
Several petitions signed by thousands of residents ask the Mayor's Administration to "make responsible decisions": "The city is depriving its children, youth, and parents from healthy physical activities."
Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers have signed a "petition" urging the city's Mayor, Eric Adams, to halt the construction of a shelter for illegal immigrants on several soccer fields located on Randall's Island.
City residents who have backed the request — many of them parents — argue that the space is critical to the children's development and are calling on the mayor to find another location to house the undocumented:
The Randall's Island shelter will be the size of four football fields and will be home to about 2,000 immigrants.
"NYC government must make responsible decisions"
Another petition created by the West Side Soccer League has already been signed by nearly 1,000 citizens. It calls on the Adams Administration to "make responsible decisions" and demands that they "immediately cease to consider these spaces as suitable places for temporary shelters":
The soccer league argues that due to the construction of the shelter, some sports organizations will be forced to cancel their events and ask the mayor not to seek solutions to the illegal crisis at the expense of "the youth" of the city:
According to a New York Post source, the city's taxpayers will be the ones footing the bill for the $20 million that the shelter will cost.