{"id":170,"date":"2023-01-30T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=170"},"modified":"2023-02-06T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:19:40","slug":"standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/01\/30\/standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Standoff outside Midtown hotel, where migrants refuse to go to \u2018inhumane\u2019 1,000-bed shelter in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; City Council Immigration Committee Chair Shahana Hanif urged the Adams\u2019 administration to walkback its plans for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and allow people to remain at the Watson Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people, not pawns, and I condemn the administration\u2019s actions,\u201d she wrote in a statement. \u201cWe know that the needs of asylum seekers cannot be met in this setting. I call on the administration to abandon this model and prioritize keeping people in proper brick-and-mortar facilities.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; City Council Immigration Committee Chair Shahana Hanif urged the Adams\u2019 administration to walkback its plans for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal and allow people to remain at the Watson Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are people, not pawns, and I condemn the administration\u2019s actions,\u201d she wrote in a statement. \u201cWe know that the needs of asylum seekers cannot be met in this setting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/01\/30\/standoff-outside-midtown-hotel-where-migrants-refuse-to-go-to-inhumane-1000-bed-shelter-in-brooklyn\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}