Should New York give migrants free luxury hotel rooms? Americans weigh in

NEW YORK – Americans gave Fox News split answers on whether they support New York City’s plan to provide migrants with hotel rooms.

“I think if they’re available … why let them go vacant when someone needs a room?” Jerry, from Florida, told Fox News outside the Row NYC, an upscale hotel the city plans to use. “Right now there’s a desperate situation for certain people that has to be taken into consideration and maybe given priority until they can be placed in some other facility.”

But Frank, a longtime New Yorker, said the idea was “absolutely ludicrous.”

“I think that I understand New York trying to provide for all these different people, but … teach them how to work or something,” he said. “Don’t let somebody get a free ride on the taxpayer.”

NEW YORK TO HOUSE MIGRANTS, HOMELESS IN FAMED TIMES SQUARE HOTEL

For weeks, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending busloads of migrants to New York City, to protest what he sees as a failure to act on the border crisis by the Biden administration.

Mayor Eric Adams is trying to secure nearly 6,000 hotel rooms to house those border crossers, the New York Post reported this week. Adams has criticized Abbott, calling the Republican governor’s actions “horrific” and accused him of using people “as political pawns to manufacture a crisis.”

Frank told Fox News the easiest fix would be to strengthen and protect America’s borders. He said he’s upset that people in other states, particularly Texas, are “laughing at New York” as the city’s leaders “give away everything that the taxpayers built.”

“Don’t let New York become a laughing stock,” Frank said.

2 MORE MIGRANT BUSES FROM TEXAS ARRIVE IN NYC AS BORDER CRISIS CONTINUES

Migrants stream across the Texas border. Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending busloads of migrants to New York City and Washington, D.C., to protest the Biden administration’s refusal to act on the border crisis.
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Chris, a tourist from Illinois staying at the Row, told Fox News he sympathizes with residents struggling to pay rent and now must see their taxpayers go toward providing housing for illegal immigrants.

“They’ve got to put them somewhere, I understand,” he said. “But I still think that we need to have some kind of control over our borders and some kind of plan in action to…