Asylum-Seeker Families Decry Sudden Transfer from Emergency Shelter in Queens
Some 36 families were on the list to be moved from an emergency shelter in Long Island City on Friday. Three yellow school buses had arrived early in the morning and were waiting in front of the Queens County Inn and Suites hotel to take the families—among the tens of thousands of asylum seekers currently in the city’s care—to their new shelter assignments.
But most did not want to leave, telling City Limits the sites they were being transferred to were too small to accommodate their families, were missing beds or windows, or that they needed more time to make the move.
“How are they going to take us out overnight, as if we were just a bunch of junk?”
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