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Staten Island politicians demand a ‘halt’ to plans to use Fort Wadsworth as migrant shelter site
NY Post ^ | 08/14/2023 | Bernadette Hogan

Posted on 08/14/2023 1:54:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The audacity! Staten Island elected officials are making it known to City Hall and the Biden administration to halt plans to use Fort Wadsworth as a possible migrant shelter site, charging that doing so would violate federal protections of national historic landmarks.

“We write to you with great concern and deep disappointment regarding the recent proposal to repurpose Fort Wadsworth, a historic site on Staten Island, as a migrant shelter,” wrote a bipartisan group of borough electeds Monday led by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in a letter addressed to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Interior Deborah Haaland, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams.

DHS officials sent by Mayorkas secretly toured the facility on Thursday, Aug. 10, along with reps from City Hall and Hochul’s office to decide whether or not the grounds would be suitable to house homeless migrants, The Post exclusively reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: halt; migrant; politicians; statenisland
Staten Island mostly Repub?
1 posted on 08/14/2023 1:54:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

why not take them to ellis island? isn’t that were the old immigrants were kept?


2 posted on 08/14/2023 1:57:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Tent city at Gracie Mansion.

Use all of Central Park.


3 posted on 08/14/2023 2:03:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Yet another example of the leftist's trying to defame and destroy our countrys' history.

Fort Wadsworth, and earlier.

4 posted on 08/14/2023 2:03:59 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ellis Island, like they used to do.


5 posted on 08/14/2023 2:06:43 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Obama plan to replace the white race on schedule!


6 posted on 08/14/2023 2:14:20 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Paladin2
Use all of Central Park.

Yes, this.

And, what about all of the unused New Yorkian office spaces, the illegal aliens might find them especially comfy.

7 posted on 08/14/2023 2:24:35 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WHEN will we get brave enough to call these ‘person’ what they are:

ILLEGAL INVADERS

NO proper ID

NO USABLE SKILLS

NO LANGUAGE SKILLS IN THE USA

NO PROPER TESTING FOR MEDICAL ISSUES BEFORE ADMITTANCE

I can go & on.

THIS IS AN INVASION-—

MIGRATION IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT


8 posted on 08/14/2023 3:34:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only borough they didn’t carry.


9 posted on 08/14/2023 3:37:03 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: TBP

Wadsworth was where we qualified with our hand guns when I was in the 108th MI.


10 posted on 08/14/2023 4:15:35 PM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They could get on internet and call it a Confederate Memorial.

Progs would be out there TONIGHT with bulldozers and tomorrow they would have semi’s with mobile homes and bags full of government credit cards and free phones.

.


11 posted on 08/14/2023 4:28:04 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well worth your viewing time (& SHARING)! Beware of the Graphic Scenes!!!
DEFEND THE BORDER!
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12 posted on 08/14/2023 4:36:28 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (=uran)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Several article such as:
Nov 13, 2022 — – Election Day was a letdown for many Republicans across the country, but not here on Staten Island, where the GOP romped.


13 posted on 08/14/2023 6:49:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a rather infamous abandoned sanatorium on the island, it seems like it could be used for this purpose. Geraldo should be able to help us find and rehabilitate the facility.


14 posted on 08/14/2023 7:00:34 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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