By:  Don Driggers

New York City Mayor Eric Adams made an announcement last week a tent-city would be built in Brooklyn. The New York Post reports  that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal would be a new migrant mega-shelter for as many as 1,000 single adult men. It’s the fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center opened in the Big Apple since migrants began coming by the busload last year.

Dozens of migrants and activists took over the sidewalk outside The Watson Hotel, where they had been staying, to protest the move.

One Manhattan activist told The New York Post that  the men outside were staying at the hotel and were prepared to stay outside overnight. Some were moved to the new shelter earlier this weekend, but opted to return to the Manhattan site, she said.

“They feel that it’s not livable,” said Valerie, who declined to give her last name but said she was part of a mutual aid coalition helping migrants.

“The hotel won’t let them in so they’re planning to sleep here,” Valerie added.

A rep for Mayor Eric Adams told The New York Post that the city began shuttling single adult men from the Watson Hotel to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in order to transition the Watson to house migrant families.

“More than 42,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City since last spring and we continue to surpass our moral obligations as we provide asylum seekers with shelter, food, health care, education, and a host of other services,” City Hall spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement. “The facilities at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will provide the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the scheduled relocations to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal this weekend took place as planned. We remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments.”

The New York Post reports that as disruptions by migrants outside the hotel caused cops to shut down eastbound traffic on the major thoroughfare Monday. Adams, meanwhile, toured the new facility at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, where he played ping pong with migrants at one of its two tables.

Migrant Oswaldo Guillén, 23, of Ecuador, told The New York Post that it’s a no-brainer why asylum-seekers such as himself want to stay at the hotel as opposed to the terminal. He said he had his own room at the ideally located Watson – complete with a suite bathroom, TV and bar fridge – for nearly two months before being bused Saturday without explanation to the isolated terminal, where he now has a cot in a massive chilly space and the use of communal showers in mobile trailers outside.

“Essentially, you have illegals, who are not actual refugees, instead who illegally came here, demanding luxury hotel accommodations, image this? This sounds like a comedy movie plot, but this is the result of deranged progressive garbage, it is one thing to allow asylum for legit refugees, these are not refugees, these are spoiled brats, who want to drink beer and smoke weed, in a free hotel room all day, and break fire safety hazards by illegally cooking in hotel rooms, they want to live the lifestyle of an American who works hard to play, they just want the play, all rewards, no work, the loving left is where I place all my blame”, a local outraged resident who lives near the Watson  told TJV News.