Thread: Migrants Booted From NYC Shelter Into Pummeling Rain

Migrants Victor Arana, left, Jose Leal and Argenes Cedeño outside the shelter, in the storm

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‘Let us wait till the rain passes and then we’ll go. Give us until the morning,’” he said, in Spanish. “But no, they kicked us out and look how we are now. We were here for two months, why not one more night?”

A reporter for THE CITY asked Housing Preservation and Development, which oversees the Jefferson Street site, on Friday morning if the men would be able to stay while flooding was ongoing. Late that morning, Illana Maier, a spokesperson for HPD, said the men would get a reprieve.

“They are allowed to stay,” she said.

But the directive did not seem to trickle down to staff at the site, as a small group of men who’d remained huddled under a nearby overhang waited to see if they’d be let back in.

An employee at the site, who declined to give her full name, said they had stopped discharges at around 10:30 a.m., but anyone who had already been formally discharged wouldn’t be let back in

“They can go to the arrival center,” she said of the men waiting outside the shelter in the storm.

By around 12:30 p.m., the shelter employees relented and allowed some of the remaining men outside to return indoors, said Jolfrank Hernandez, 31, from Venezuela.

“We ask them, to look in their hearts, that they have a little humanity,” Hernandez said, in Spanish. “We’re human beings, like anyone else, and if we can’t stay here, we’ll be in the street.”

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Go to your Venezuelan Consulate and ask for transportation BACK HOME where you belong.

They can treat you like "human beings" there and put you on an airplane back to your country.

We have thousands of our own citizens living in the streets that are homeless in the rain, snow, wind, cold, and floods.



Venezuelan Consulate General in New York, the United States

7 East 51th Street

New York New York 10022 United States

Telephone:
(+1) (212) 826-1660