NY Hotels Evicting Homeless Vets for Illegal Migrants.

Conservative News DailyMay 13, 2023

Homeless Veterans Kicked Out of Upstate Hotels to Make Room for Migrants

Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, according to a nonprofit group that works with the vets. The ex-military, including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan, were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.

Veterans Forced to Move

Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, 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.

Money Over Veterans?

Toney-Finch said she believes it all comes down to money. “They want to get paid’’ more, she said of the hotels, referring to what her group shells out to get the vets housing compared to what the city is paying for each migrant. “That’s so unfair, because at the end of the day, we are a small nonprofit, and we do pay $88 a day for a veteran to be there,” she said.

Outrageous Treatment of Veterans

State Assemblyman Brian Maher, a Republican who helps rep Orange County, said, “Shining a light on this is important because we need to make sure these hotels know how important it is to respect the service of our veterans before they kick [them] out of hotels to make room.” “They really ought to think about the impact on these people already going through a traumatic time,’’ he told The Post. “Whether you agree with asylum-seekers being here or not, we can’t just ignore these veterans that are in our charge that we are supposed to protect: the New Yorkers and Americans.”

Care Packages for Veterans

Maher said it’s outrageous that veterans are getting caught in the crossfire of the migrant crisis. “For these people only being there a few weeks, then to be told after having a level of trust developed, ‘Hey, you have to get out,’ That’s not right,’’ he said. “One thing I’m doing today is my staff and I are putting together care packages to let them know: ‘Listen, we are embarrassed by this.’ “We put a bunch of things in the care package as well as cards for the veterans to say, ‘Thank you.’ ”