Migrants staying at $500-a-night Times Square hotel on the NYC taxpayers' dime are 'trashing rooms'

A luxury hotel in the heart of New York City is being 'trashed' by migrants - who have been accused of drinking all day, smoking marijuana, having sex in stairwells and causing fights, an employee claims.

The migrants - many of whom were bussed into the Big Apple from border states - are being housed temporarily in this luxury 1,300-room Manhattan hotel - The Row NYC, a $500-a-night hotel in the tourist hotspot of Times Square. 

Hotel employee Filipe Rodriguez has called the situation a 'disgrace' and shared videos and photos of the chaos, which included 'good food' sitting out to rot in trash bags because 'the migrants don't want to eat it.'

'The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,' Rodriguez told The Ingraham Angle on Fox News this week. 

A luxury hotel in the heart of New York City is being 'trashed' by migrants - who have been accused of drinking all day, smoking marijuana, having sex in stairwells and causing fights, employee Filipe Rodriguez. He has shared photos of trashed and filthy hotel rooms

Rodriguez said: 'The form in which they keep their rooms is horrendous. They don't clean it, they don't fold their clothes. They're hoarding clothes, they're hoarding whatever they can hoard.' 

Rodriguez said there has been a number of  'domestic violence' incidents among migrants, young people 'having sex in the stairs,' and added there was a fight between a migrant and a hotel security officer

Some of the images shared included 'good food' sitting out to rot in trash bags because 'the migrants don't want to eat it'. 'The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,' Rodriguez said.

Alcohol is prohibited in all migrant shelters, ABC7 reported, but the employees say they often find empty beer and liquor bottles in the rooms and hallways, as seen in photos shared by Rodriguez.

'The form in which they keep their rooms is horrendous. They don't clean it, they don't fold their clothes. They're hoarding clothes, they're hoarding whatever they can hoard,' he said.

'There was a lot of stuff that I had to be responsible for. Fortunately for the migrants, they got the government of the United States to hand them carte blanche to pretty much do as they wish. They go in and out of the hotel at will,' he said.

Rodriguez added that thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded food is being wasted with migrants throwing it out because they insist on cooking in their rooms on hotplates, which is also a danger to themselves and others staying at the hotel.

'They said they don't like it,' he said about the migrants and hotel food. 'This is all food that is going to waste. This is insane.' 

Rodriguez also pointed out that there has also been several of 'domestic violence' incidents among migrants, with one even fighting a security guard at the hotel. On top of that, some young people have been 'having sex in the stairs'.

Rodriguez shared another photo of a hotel room strewn with clutter and trash 

Rodriguez showed bags of fresh food being thrown away because the migrants don't want it

Rodriguez added that thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded food is being wasted with migrants throwing it out because they insist on cooking in their rooms on hotplates

Migrants who arrived in New York City from the border have been housed temporarily in this luxury Manhattan hotel - The Row in the tourist hotspot of Times Square

The four-star Row, on 8th Avenue between 44th and 45th streets, is in the heart of Manhattan's Broadway Theater District and boasts classic NYC views, a full fitness studio, a communal workspace equipped with Apple's $2,000 iMac desktops and a lounge where 'hand-stretched' pizzas are $20. 

Its bar menu boasts cocktails costing up to $19 each. A glass of champagne is $22. Room prices vary depending on the size - but the executive suite is $719 a night.

New York City is using the hotel to exclusively to house migrants, some of whom are seeking asylum. 

The city is using the hotel staff at The Row to work there, but the city has yet to disclose how much taxpayer money is being used to house migrants. 

More than 36,400 migrants have flooded into New York City in the last few months and have been housed at just 14 hotels, according to Rodriguez. 

Most of the migrants have been arriving on buses from border states, including Texas, as a result of President Joe Biden's border crisis. The influx has become so problematic that Mayor Eric Adams also begged Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to stop sending more to the city.

In November, Adams said that it would cost the city up to $600 million a year to provide shelter, education, health care and legal aid to the thousands of migrants - and he has asked Biden to step in with federal aid. 

The trendy hotel began housing migrants last summer as thousands arrived from Texas

Visitors to The Row have access to a fully-equipped fitness center (pictured)

Biden did not discuss the southern border at his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador during their summit in Mexico this week, with claims that there was 'no time' to discuss the historic crisis.

The topic of the southern border was kept off the agenda at the Three Amigos Summit in Mexico City, Mexico on Monday and Tuesday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

It appears that because a private conversation between Biden and López Obrador went long, the following official meeting left the group with less time than expected to discuss the issue of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The pre-meeting talk apparently touched on migration and the border, but it's not clear in how much detail they spoke on the matter.

The official meeting appeared to focus mostly on drug smuggling and supply chain issues.

Sources familiar with President Joe Biden's official meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador this week say that the two leaders and their respective cabinets did not discuss the southern border crisis because they ran out of time

The trip to Mexico for the 'Three Amigos Summit' followed Biden's first-ever trip to the southern border following two years of pressure from Republicans 

Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has repeatedly slammed Republicans for exacerbating the crisis at the southern border. 

Biden is 'trying to fix' the border crisis, she said to questions over his solutions following his trip to the border on Sunday and subsequent meetings with Canadian and Mexican leaders.

'As it relates to migration, irregular migration, obviously that was a key topic of discussion,' Jean-Pierre insisted in her Wednesday press conference. 'President Biden discussed ways our countries can continue to work together and to address irregular migration. So that conversation certainly happened, extensively.'