Hotels in Upstate New York have begun evicting struggling homeless veterans to make room for illegals who are being bused in from New York City.
Many of the vets are Vietnam-era veterans who were receiving temporary shelter in the hotels with the help of a nonprofit organization.
According to a non-profit that works with the veterans, twenty homeless vets have been kicked out of various Upstate New York hotels to make room for illegal aliens, as reported by The New York Post.
“Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,’’ said Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney (YIT) Foundation.
Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, founded YIT to help homeless and low-income veterans and raise awareness about the dangers of premature births.
New York estimates caring for illegal aliens will cost $4 billion by next year, as reported by NBC News correspondent Gabe Gutierrez:
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Toney-Finch said 15 of the veterans got the heave-ho from the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh about 60 miles north of New York City in Orange County — a new epicenter of Big Apple’s migrant crisis since Mayor Eric Adams began bussing Gotham’s overflow there against local officials’ wishes.
The other five displaced veterans were split between two other local facilities — the Super 8 and Hampton Inn & Suites in Middletown, Toney-Finch said.
The Middletown hotels are not believed to have migrants yet but were reportedly on the city’s shortlist to take some.
She said the hotels didn’t explicitly say the vets had to move because of the migrants but that it was clear to her that was the case, given the timing.
All 20 of the booted veterans have ended up at a Hudson Valley hotel about 20 minutes away, said Toney-Finch, who asked that The Post not name the site.
Toney-Finch said the veterans had originally been set to temporarily stay at the three hotels for up to four weeks, till permanent housing for them could be found.
The vets were about two weeks into their hotel stays when they got the boot, she said.
New York Republican Rep. Marc Molinaro was rightfully disgusted by the news.
This is absolutely inexcusable and should not be happening in America. This is the result of incompetence and lack of compassion. This be won’t [sic] tolerated.
Donald Trump Jr. reacted to the news, calling it “infuriating”. “F*ck Democrats & their bullsh*t policies! America last isn’t hyperbole it’s their goal.”
