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Francine. I want to give you

all another live look out

in New York City 1 because

it's a beautiful Skyline

shot 1 of my favorite

in the US, but also as we

are discussing the very

latest of border security

we also need to talk

about the migrant crisis.

joining us live this

morning to further explain

is Fox 5, New York's Lisa

Evers Lisa. We always

appreciate you joining us

here on live now. I know

this time last week we

were just discussing

those. uh debit cards that

were being given to the

migrants and then uh

recently finding out this

week, uh about those

migrants that were living.

in those stores allegedly

paying rent, Uh, what

are you hearing on your

end? Well Gina a lot of

things and it's just it

seems now as if almost

every day or every other

day. there are more stories

coming out about this

spillover effect of this

migrant crisis. which new New

York city mayor Eric Adams

said would actually Doom

the city. at some point.

That's probably the most

dismal thing. He's ever

had to say about this but

in terms of the furniture

store, uh, there was a

Furniture There is a

furniture store owner in

Queens he is immigrated

here from Sagal. about uh,

10 years ago. he had

dozens of Migrant men from

West Africa. in his

basement sleeping on cats

sleeping on mattresses and

the floor of his basement.

um the basement of the

furniture store their then

it turns out that in the

Bronx he also owned another

store and he had the similar

situation these mattresses

and remember it's cold

here in New York right

now. We're in the middle of

winter. There's space

heaters, which are very

dangerous and we're extension

cords. all types of things

Which the fire department

felt was a a fire hazard

so they shut down both

of those locations. We're

talking talking over. a

hundred men. Um at least

like at least 45 beds about

70 men in each location.

and some of them

reportedly were paying up

to $300 a month just to

have a place to sleep Now.

what's happened this week

is you're showing the video

of the migrant crime wave

that we've been

experiencing here in

New York. and this it's

just reached up.

It's reached a point where

people are saying this has

gone too far. It's it's

very organized as you see

with the the video right

there with the moped the

moped ring they had.

62 incidents. They were being

given orders by a man over.

WhatsApp of what to Rob

and what to steal you see

them stealing bags. They

were stealing phones. and

some of them have were

already arrested but here's

the problem once they're

arrested the NYPD. because

New York City is a

sanctuary city has no

liaison with ice. Yes Ice

is very active here in

the New York area as

you can imagine. they could

not just pick up the phone

as you would in many other

cities in the United

States and say hey we just

arrested a guy for assault.

We just arrested the guy

for a a robbery. He's been

charged we want to turn him

over to you. He's also a

repeat offender, which

has been the other uh sore

point to many New Yorkers.

law-abiding New Yorkers here.

Uh, we want to turn them

over to you. but they

can't do that in New York.

because New York City

because it's a sanctuary

City. the mayor mayor Adams

in the past has been very

proud of the fact that

this is, New York. we can

accommodate anybody we can

take in anybody. early on

in the migrant crisis. He

said come here come to

New York. We'll take care

of you and New Yorkers quite

frankly are getting fed up

with it. We had as you

mentioned last week

that $13. a day per person. a

debit card is being

given to the migrants many

New Yorkers who are having

those stand online at food

banks every week are saying

wait a minute. What about

us That would certainly go

a long way to helping other?

What's with our groceries?

We're working. We're trying

to make ends meet here,

but in terms of the crime

wave we've seen them We've

seen assaults on police

officers. we've seen. uh

shooting of a a tourist in

Time Square. Um some of

these are underage migrants.

They're teens part of these

rings that they're being.

uh groomed into and they're

being uh groomed into by

various means we've seen

other types of crimes going

on the the migrant shelter

Men Shelter on Randall's

Island. They just decided

this week that they would

put in metal detectors there

because there have been

so many problems at that

particular location. So

it's just been it's been 1

thing after another complete

disregard for the law and

a lot of times they felt

like, lot of times they

felt like okay if they

were wearing masks if they

were wearing hoodies if they

had their faces covered there

was very little way uh,

very little way to

identify them and because

they came across the

border basically the

southern border of the

United States. southern

border of the United

States the southwestern

border. They CA they came

across there's no

fingerprints. There's no type

of ID. There's no type of

um, any type of

identification like that.

So the police have really

had to do a lot of extra

work to just even try to

figure out who are these

individuals so they arrest

them they indict

them, but they can't if it's

a numb if it's it's a not

a bail eligible crime which

some of these believe it

or not still are not in New

York City in New York

state. they have they

have nowhere to put them.

or send them because we

are a sanctuary City. so

this week Mary Adams said

listen. I think it's time. I

love the concept of a

sanctuary City. I'm not

saying end it I'm saying.

amend it and he proposed

to the city council. that

they have a liaison with

the local. ice office here.

so that if there are Please

repeat offenders which many

of them are even the young

ones. the underage ones. is

if have a liaison with ice

on these repeat offenders

have a way so that NYPD

can just pick up the

phone. and and or send an

email and say listen we

have these guys here

They're at such and such a

Precinct Can you please

come pick them up? ice

comes and picks them up as

they do. in other cities.

and then boom that's it.

They're out of New York. New

York taxpayers, which are

are people are just going

crazy over the amount of

taxes here. that people

have to pay how expensive

everything is. New York

Taxpayers don't have to

pay. to house that person.

in a city or county jail.

uh feed them housed them

and continue to give them

whatever. uh, benefits

package they have as

migrants. and they can be

they can be gone some of

them might come back, but

they will definitely be

gone for a period of time

but more importantly the

message will be sent

wherever they came from.

the crime is not being

tolerated. what we have

now Gina is we have Criminal

criminal rings they're

actually going into stores

with specific orders of

what they need to steal.

shoplifting it. then getting

on buses taking it down

to, Florida. selling it in

Florida and then coming

back here in New York.

They don't dare stay in

Florida because they don't

know if they get caught for

these types of crimes. these

armed robberies and these

assaults and these

Personnel jeans and phone

snatching. and chain

snatching. and Florida.

They're going to end up in

jail and they're going to

end up deported because

they will have a a liaison

with ice to

send them back. So it's

it's just the it's just

every day There it seems

there is just another

development. of the of

signs of just how.

impactful this migrant

crisis has been in

New York City. and what

it's doing to the Daily

quality of life and it's

not even you know, yes we've

seen some of the

neighborhoods you talk about

the furniture store.

Well that impacted the

residents that how did the

authorities find out about

it in Queens. There's

millions of people in

Queens. they found out about

it because of all of the

activity people living

next door people living

in the neighborhood. saying,

their their men coming and

going dozens of men coming

and going day and night

There's a lot of activity

in the Bronx a lot of

these they saw same thing

with a lot of ebikes

parked out front. They're

like, wait a minute. What

are they doing here at

1:00 2:00 in the morning.

coming and going a lot of

noise a lot of disruption

not to mention the safety

issues and Gina as you

know, we've been having

to big crisis here just

with these ebike battery

fires, so there there's a

lot of concerns here and

it's just the mayor seem to

be at his Breaking Point.

City Council saying no way

We're not changing the

sanctuary City. uh statute on

political grounds a lot of

New Yorkers just general

public. talking about this

saying, something has to be

done because it is just

deteriorating and you know,

you know, it's not even a

question of what

neighborhood or if you're

living in a certain

neighborhood This is

visible. the signs of

strain are everywhere in

the city. you stop at a

stoplight and you'll see a

woman a woman selling candy

bars or selling

fruit or selling. bottles of

water a lot of them have

little babies. I mean

babies that are not even a

year old. tied to their

backs as they're trying to

make ends meet here. So

what? are we really talking

about Is this really

humanitarian? Is this is

this a humanitarian way for

us to even treat

individuals like that? So

a lot of questions being

raised about this Janna,

but the big thing people

have just after the debit

cards and just seeing the

crime and then knowing that

a lot of the people these

people committing the

crime. are repeat

offenders. the mayor goes

they don't deserve to be

in our city and a lot of

New Yorkers are saying

that's common sense.

They're breaking the law.

They shouldn't be here

in the first place. But if

they are here breaking the

law they definitely should

not be allowed to stay so

it looks like it's

going to be another

stalemate for the male the

mayor moving forward on

this 1 Gina. Lisa Evers

with Fox 5 New York we

always appreciate your

expertise in dialogue.

Thank you so much for joining

us this morning on live

now from Fox to give us

all as the latest

developments of the migrant

crisis issue. Enjoy the

rest of your day.