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Hotel worker lifts lid on how Democrat cities are cashing in on America's migrant crisis: 'They're loving it!'
A former employee at New York City's largest migrant shelter has claimed that hotels involved in resettlement are profiting off the city's shelter program.
Carlos Arellano previously worked at Row NYC, which was converted from a four-star hotel into the city's biggest temporary shelter for migrants just under two years ago.
Speaking from personal experience, Arellano claimed the hotel staff at such shelters were expensing the city 'for any little thing they can.'
'And when you see 10 workers on the first floor of the lobby of the hotel, only two of them are really working,' Arellano told Fox and Friends guest host Rachel Campos-Duffy.
'Meanwhile, the hotel will still charge the city for all 10 staff members, and you really don’t know what’s going on in there until you work in one of these places, but the costs just keep being driven up by the hotels.'
Carlos Arellano, a former employee at Row NYC Hotel, claimed hotel owners were profiting off the city's migrant crisis
During an appearance on Fox and Friends, Arellano claimed hotel staff were expensing the city 'for any little thing they can'
Arellano, who appeared on Fox News last year to raise allegations of dismal conditions inside the hotel, asserted that politicians and hotel owners were 'loving this because the money is just going around and around.'
The 1,300-room Row Hotel is among the Big Apple's Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers, or HERRCs.
The city inked a $40 million contract in October 2022 to buy out the building until mid-April 2023, making it one of the first Midtown hotels to shelter only migrant families. It is now overseen by the city’s Health and Hospitals system.
He previously appeared on Fox News to lift the lid on grimy conditions inside the hotel, which has become the city's largest temporary migrant shelter
Towards the end of 2022, the city entered into a contract of up to $980 million with a trade group to pay hotels that offered to house migrants.
Participants would be granted up to $185 a night per room, whether or not the rooms were occupied - an attractive deal for hotels still struggling to recover from the post-pandemic slump in numbers.
Around 135 of the city’s roughly 680 hotels entered the Sanctuary Hotel Program.
However, this proved to be a temporary solution to a much larger problem - there simply wasn't enough space, and now there was even less to accommodate tens of millions of tourists.
Last October, the city implemented a 60-day limit on shelter stays for families with children. Those who hadn't found alternative housing were redirected to the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s main intake center, to reapply for placement.
Last October, the city implemented a 60-day limit on shelter stays for families with children, driving dozens of families from the Row Hotel
While the order would have initially evicted families around Christmas, it was postponed until January 9.
Dozens of families began leaving the Row Hotel that month, around the same time that New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced an investigation into the implementation of the 60-day shelter limit.
In a letter sent to City Hall, Lander cautioned against 'the potentially harmful impacts of the policy on families seeking asylum, especially on children who may be displaced from their public school as a result of being transferred to a shelter far from their school.'
He blasted the Eric Adams administration for 'implementing one of the cruelest policies to come from City Hall in generations, evicting families from shelter in the middle of winter, and displacing kids from their schools in the middle of the school year.'
Lander vowed to look into the use of funds for busing and transferring migrants and the order's impact on the effort to secure work authorizations, among other issues.
More than 100,000 asylum seekers have made their way to the Big Apple since April 2022, when busloads began arriving from the southern border.
Adams projects the city will spend more than $12 billion through Fiscal Year 2025, with the figure reflecting the total cost accrued since 2022.
His administration has been attempting to roll back the city's decades-long right to shelter rule, which guarantees housing for those without shelter, since last May.
In the context of the migrant crisis, this rule placed additional strain on an already overburdened city as tens of thousands of new arrivals flooded in without a clear path to employment.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams anticipates that the city will spend more than $12 billion through Fiscal Year 2025, with the number representing the total cost accrued since 2022
The city reached an agreement with the Legal Aid Society in March, imposing 30-day limit on shelter stays for some adult migrants with no opportunity to reapply for placement
In March, the city reached an agreement with the Legal Aid Society, imposing 30-day limit on shelter stays for some adult migrants without offering them a chance to reapply for placement.
The development came after 10 months of back-and-forth discussion between city representatives and the group, which represents people living in shelters.
Those two conditions permitting a shelter extension are if a migrant is disabled or has an 'extenuating circumstance,' though the definition of that term remains open to interpretation.
Young adults, classified as those under the age of 23, will be given 60 days to stay in city shelters.
According to the Legal Aid Society, the terms only apply to single adults and do not alter the underlying right to shelter decree.
In a statement, Adams acknowledged that New York City had 'led the nation in responding to a national humanitarian crisis' by providing care to over 180,000 migrants since spring 2022.
However, he continued, 'we have been clear, from day one, that the ‘Right to Shelter’ was never intended to apply to a population larger than most U.S. cities descending on the five boroughs in less than two years.'