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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The Roosevelt Hotel claims that it’s the place “where classic elegance meets contemporary luxury”. Classic elegance and luxury at the midtown Manhattan hotel looks like busloads of migrant invaders arriving and camping outside the golden doors. The scene is no better inside where 41 migrants have been arrested for beating wives, girlfriends and significant others.
There have also been assaults on employees and an arrest for child endangerment.
While the Roosevelt Hotel may have an old name, Mayor Eric Adams and New York City actually leased it from Pakistan for $220 million. That amounts to paying $210 per room for each night that an illegal alien invader uses it to smoke meth or abuse their wives and daughters.
The Roosevelt Hotel was named after Teddy. You can imagine what he would have done if thousands of foreigners had invaded a hotel and turned it into a drug den on his watch.
In a city where a quarter of young children live in poverty, that $220 million could probably be put to better use than paying the Islamic terror state linked to the September 11 attacks on New York City for the privilege of housing the hordes of invaders in “contemporary luxury”.
Mayor Adams has already jettisoned his promise of universal day care to care for the migrants.
Inside the Roosevelt from the gilt sign at the entrance to the art deco halls has been tarnished. Migrants squat under the massive crystal chandelier in the ballroom and sleep on the red carpet. Despite supposedly being poor and desperate, many are swiping and clicking through their smartphone apps while they wait for their next taxpayer-funded benefit to arrive.
Once the setting for movies like Wall Street and The French Connection, the storied hotel is now home to another kind of corrupt crime story. The black marble pillars and spacious rooms have been fully occupied by an endless invading army that continues to stream across the border. The smells and the level of filth are reflective of the three remaining working showers.
The massive influx of migrants has made the area near Grand Central Station as unsafe as it was in the 1970s. Despite the hotel being supposedly reserved for families, Central American and African male migrants in their twenties wearing blue surgical masks that cover most of their faces swarm the area and move in packs at night around nervous tourists and local businesses.
The fame of the Roosevelt Hotel appears to have traveled along the migrant pipeline and male migrants have fought, sometimes violently, to stay there instead of being relocated to homeless shelters. Local businesses, already battered by the pandemic, have been hit hard by the crisis.
The cost of housing the invaders is being paid to the Pakistani government. Even though
Pakistan International Airlines, under the control of the terror state’s government, was barred from flying directly to the United States after 9/11, it was allowed to take over the hotel and run it into the ground. The Biden administration has since allowed PIA to resume direct flights.
The Pakistani government harbored Osama bin Laden. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had initiated negotiations with Al Qaeda and offered to “reestablish normal relations.” Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, nicknamed ‘Taliban Khan’, had called Bin Laden a “martyr”.
Now New Yorkers are stuck paying hundreds of millions of dollars to an Islamic terror state tied to the attacks that killed so many fellow residents and citizens to provide luxury housing for the latest wave of the invaders. Osama bin Laden would be proud of what is happening here.
Beyond Pakistan, other foreign business interests are also benefiting from the foreign invasion.
Chinese developer Jubao Xie, who put up the world’s tallest Holiday Inn in Manhattan, got $190 a night, $93,000 a day and $2.8 million a month to house the invaders. The skyscraper hotel, a bafflingly ugly eyesore, was in trouble before the migrant bailout was approved by a bankruptcy judge. A number of other foreign owned hotels are also benefiting from the arrangement.
The use of high-end hotels to house the illegal invaders has not only wrecked classic storied hotels like the Roosevelt or the Paramount, but it has also ruined the surrounding areas that the Giuliani administration had struggled to drag away from the blight that had overtaken Midtown.
Where tourists are supposed to arrive by train, take in Broadway shows and go to a nice restaurant afterward, the streets swarm with migrant thieves, beggars and madmen.
Row Hotel, a classic Times Square hotel that promises “comfort and security while away from home” turned into another migrant hellhole. That’s where Daniel Hernandez Martinez, a migrant who was arrested six times for five assaults in two months, attacked a man with a bike tire.
Martinez was responsible for a one-man crime wave in the Times Square area. The criminal migrant was apparently staying in a $500 a night hotel which a former worker described as a
‘free for all’ of drugs, sex and violence where the rooms have been trashed and defiled.
Messages at the formerly stylish hotel described everything from a 10-year-old girl drunk alone in the room to an intruder carrying a machete. “Every day, we find about ten kids alone in their hotel rooms, either drinking or doing drugs. Weapons will be in the room,” a worker described.
And while America’s enemies are laughing and profiting, we are doing this to ourselves.
Open borders is only half the story. At a local level, the other half of the story is the ‘right to shelter’ regulations like those in New York City and other epicenters of the migrant invasion that guarantee everyone a room regardless of how illegal, violent or diseased they may be.
The homeless industrial complex claimed that the only reason junkies were wandering the streets was that an unfair capitalist system had deprived them of affordable housing. They invented a ‘right to shelter’ and radical leftist politicians who came to power implemented it.
A decade ago, I wrote about the rise of “homeless by choice” in which migrants, tourists and traveling junkies showed up in New York City to claim their “three meals a day, a microwave oven, TV, free laundry, free Internet, free health care and a prepaid cell phone with 300 minutes a month.”
And I warned that it would end badly. Now instead of a few thousand junkies, there are tens of thousands of migrants. And they’re just the beginning. Each of them also wants their free phones, health care, meals and everything else they think that they’re entitled to.
Including a stay in a luxury hotel.
Back then, one in four homeless in New York listed addresses outside the city. Today it’s probably the vast majority. There’s no longer even the pretense of a homeless problem.
New York City’s homeless problem just consists of people from other countries showing up in the city and demanding a room at the Roosevelt, the Row or the Paramount. Why be a sucker and pay $300 bucks for a hotel when you can just arrive as a refugee and demand a free room.
The taxpayers will pay for it and hand over the cash to Pakistan to finance more terrorism.
This is ALTRUISM in practice. Unless and until Americans learn what altruism and sacrifice really mean, and what SELFISHNESS really means, there is no hope to save capitalism, private property, or the pursuit of happiness.
Jesus Christ or John Galt, take your pick, you can’t have both.
At least Americans have the solution now, it’s called Objectivism and rational selfishness. I will not stop spreading the Gospel of John Galt until the day I die. If there is a future for America it will be because of Ayn Rand’s philosophy.
” I will not stop spreading the Gospel of John Galt until the day I die. If there is a future for America it will be because of Ayn Rand’s philosophy.”
Thus sayeth the lord, the lord of narcissistic personality disorder. With apologies to George Frederick Handel from Messiah
So now it is gospel. Hopefully, your day can’t come soon enough. It is astonishing what a self-involved moron you are. There IS a future for America and it doesn’t include you or your Objectivism 101 sophomore level course on self-flagellation.
Yeah, and reading about East Africa in the 1850s, the problem was not lack of objectivist philosophy, it was that the population had evolved to such a low level that they weren’t even close to being mentally capable of engaging in such philosophical discussion.
They actually had a pretty good life, better than some poor Europeans of the day. Drinking their homemade beer (Pombe) from dawn until they passed out at dusk, doing a little hunting and trapping, a little work, having their meals, sitting around chatting and smoking Bhang (cannabis).
I was wondering if all that beer ever gave them a headache, finally I came across a reference, yeah, they went to bed with a headache and woke up with a headache.
Yeah, lazy you know whats. It rhymes with “Tigger..”
They remind me of Indonesians although they were much more stupid an violent. Life is so easy in Indonesia because of all the fruits and vegetables which flourish in that fecund volcanic soil and the fish off the coasts. And the water buffalo there are huge but placid and easy to kill and eat. I once saw a kid lolling on the back of one in relaxation while it munched rice in a paddy.
I miss that place.
Thanks Jeff!!!!
And I’m sure that you are personally showing how altruistic you are by housing, ( in your home) feeding and providing all the comforts of life to at least a family or two – or more likely you are a typical progressive who talks the talk but will never walk the walk!
This isn’t altruism, it’s an invasion.
If these folks were coming in wearing Trump t-shirts, they’d be droned crossing the border.
The Left’s empathy is strictly strategic and situational.
The altruism comes into play because Americans are expected to sacrifice their interests for the invaders.
Don’t bet on lil Aynnie. LOL
IF there is a future for America it will be due to the Nation’s educated and aware voting citizens waking up to the cause of their current plight and global embarrassment.
More evidence if needed, that the radical DEms don’t ever intend to lose power again ; it’s their 1917 moment
That’s certainly what they are always looking for, another 1917 moment. I got that idea reading Trotsky’s book on Stalin.
Odd tho that most marxists are atheists dedicated to wiping out Christianity. Christianity enshrines free will and property rights that are diametrically opposed to marxism’s enslavement to the state paradigm and THOU SHALL NOT STEAL means the state has no right to steal the products of your labor. Regardless what some idiot says, Christians are NOT collectivists. Charity may be encouraged but not forced because that is stealing. Permanent state imposed stealing where the state owns the citizens is slavery. Marxist “altruism” is imposed by the state regardless of the will of the citizen, therefore it is stealing and slavery.
Christianity does not support slavery. White Christians are the ONLY people who have worked to stop slavery worldwide – we have spent treasure, sweat and blood to stop it. You might say for altruistic reasons, perhaps for some but I would say mostly it was because white people had been enslaved extensively, and were still being enslaved by muslims in Africa and Asia, that white Christians waged war on the slave raiders to stop our sons and daughters from being in danger of enslavement. It sure as heck wasn’t atheists waging war, shedding blood, spending treasure to stop slavery.
Atheist communists have murdered well over 100MILLION people in the past 100 years. When you are your own god, you can murder millions and suffer no consequences in the after life. Atheists most often are monsters if given any power at all. They can’t be trusted to do anything other than what is in their own best interest or perverse whim. They have no reason to have any morals or ethics of any kind if they have the power to avoid any consequences or think they won’t get caught.
Marxist governments always do their level best to get rid of religion, especially Christianity, because marxism replaces God with the state, and the state bureaucrats have replaced God with themselves. The marxist state can tolerate no threat to it’s power.
So to hell with John Galt. I am a Christian and a complete anti marxist because it is a system of theft and slavery. The Declaration of Independence is a completely and entirely CHRISTIAN concept… LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUIT of HAPPINESS, which is the exact opposite of marxism.
Marxism = Theft and Slavery
Atheists have no reason not to kill you or commit any other atrocity, if they think they can get away with it.
You are wrongfully equating atheism with Marxism. Not all atheists are Marxists. Some atheists are Objectivists and we intransigently believe in and defend freedom, liberty, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. And there are Christian Socialists. Christian Socialism is a real form of Christianity, whether you like it or not. Christianity and Socialism are fully compatible, whether you like it or not.
Christianity is fully compatible with the use of force, Christianity is always weap0nized for theocracy. You ignore the 300 years of war, brutality, and persecution which were the Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Protestant killing Catholic and Protestant killing Protestant all because of heresy and blasphemy.
You ignore the fact that the American Puritans were fleeing from the persecution of the totalitarian theocracy of the Church of England. And that the Puritans did not come to America to establish religious freedom but to establish their own brutal theocracy to persecute their own members and anyone who wasn’t a Puritan.
Christianity leads to the brutality of theocracy just like Islam does — that’s a historical and philosophical, logical, fact.
“Not all atheists are Marxists.”
But all Marxists are atheists. Or at least all i have met in Shanghai and Beijing.
“Christianity leads to the brutality of theocracy just like Islam does — that’s a historical and philosophical, logical, fact.”
Are you saying, then, that that was the reason the Romans put Jesus Cristo Rey on trial and then used the cat-of nine-tails on him? It appears they were concerned, for sure, over losing influence.
Like an attorney might had said, “It depends.” Generalizations are not good logic. Maybe many, maybe most, maybe the persuasive 20% – 30%, but not ALL. Actually, it depends on the individual heading the group as well as the mindset of the individuals within the group.
You compare Jesus Cristo and Mohammed. How about Confucious? How about a real monk of the Tao or any of those of India’s multiple religions? Were those enlightened pushing brutality? Mostly those who pushed brutality were the lessers bent on power over enlightenment.
Obviously your half hearted defense of freedom, liberty, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism isn’t catching on with the public.
The fact is most people think atheists are Marxists, and you do nothing to to dispel that belief. Here’s a hint: instead of endlessly bashing Christianity and Judaism, how about actually sticking up for freedom, liberty, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism and stop wasting your time trying to “convert” people to atheism. You just might get a few more people to agree with you. Unfortunately atheism is tied to Objectivism at the hip and you are too blind to see it. So your reaction is to bash God and religion. Not too smart.
Yeah, he’s so hooked on his fanatical ideological ideas that he is unable to do a concrete analysis of real situations. Misses all kinds of interesting historical situations, for example, trying to shoehorn them into his ideological fixation.
Well said sir. 100% agree
BIDEN, by the beginning of the year, will grant FULL AMNESTY to 30-40 MILLION and the Democrat machine will help them with the paperwork AND TO REGISTER TO VOTE WHICH IS THE REAL PLAN and they’ll vote for those WHO HELPED THEM!
This means our Country’s direction and its leaders will be chosen by people who will always wave their flag WHILE BURNING OURS!
“IMMIGRANTS from all over the world leave their country due to the corruption and the lack of the Rule of Law, to come here, a country envied for its Rule of Law. LEGAL IMMIGRANTS stand in line to do it The Hard Way, The Long Way, The Right Way, and they’re bitter at all the help given for the ILLEGAL WAY when there was no one there to help them do it THE HONORABLE WAY! They then demand that we overlook our laws making exactly like the lawless country they just left!” SC
BIDEN’S COMMUNIST MACHINE is now at Swearing In ceremonies with their Voter Registration tables. LEGALS proudly raise their Right Hand, tears in their eyes: “It was all worth it!” I bet they thought of just walking across the border instead! What’s the Honor in that?
“FREE FREE FREE BUT YOU MUST VOTE FOR ME! ME! ME!”
Wow.
The Roosevelt Hotel.
Years ago there was a lovely, elegant kosher restaurant in the hotel called “La Difference”.
I remember dining there one Saturday night. The musical entertainment for the diners was an as yet unknown singer-composer, Shlomo Carlebach.
A sweet memory.
“No no. They can’t take that away from me.”
But “the times, they are a changin’”………
Very sad. That must have been quite a while ago though I think I vaguely remember “La Difference”.
We will all be NYC soon. The catastrophe we are witnessing will not be confined to Manhattan and five star hotels. It will spread across the country because our government has chosen not to do anything. America the beautiful, land of the free, home of the brave — those days are over.
Our administration and the Left, generally, are not doing nothing. They are actively trying to destroy this country. Their policies are so irrational, insane, and destructive that I can only conclude that they are implementing them in order to disorient and demoralize the population to prepare the battlefield for their authoritarian takeover.
Do the liberals really think that when they take over the country, the terrorists will keep their word about leaving them alone. Will they be able to keep their fancy houses and cars. The women will not have to wear the jail cell, Haib.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrVhNn5Th0 notice how the women in Irag are dressed in the 1950’s.
The whole entire leadership or the Big Apple needs to all be arrested and charged with Harboring the Enemy Life in Prison No Parole No Clemency
The whole of the UN needs to be arrested and thrown in jail.
This is not only a USA problem they are orchestrating mass migration all over decent civilised countries. Young military age men invading the western world.
Defund the UN now!
So what are we going to do about it? Donald Trump is not the answer, nor is any other politician. Only we can save the day by standing up to the craziness and getting out of our comfort zone. The likes of Antifa must be beaten into submission, the illegals chased out of the country, the charlatans removed from office by force. By not taking such actions, the government has our consent. It’s time we answered Thomas Jefferson’s challenge to face a tyrannical government like his peers faced down King George, his army, his navy and the entire bloody British Empire. This is our country and our money that’s being blown on foreign wars, foreign invaders and ideas foreign to The Constitution.
The John Birch Society is one who is behind the Movement to pull America out of the UN and the UN Out of America
NYC is in a death spiral. Kill off the restaurant business with electric stoves and fat/sugar content rules, pack hotels with illegal aliens, rent control to the point of causing a housing shortage and taxes/fees so high that most types of businesses cant operate in the city. Encouraging leftist mobs like BLM and Antifa, etc, etc, etc.
If I owed real estate there–commercial or housing–I’d sell and get the hell out of Dodge while the getting is still good.
You can’t Make This SH*T UP????????????????????
This is indeed the age of absurdity
I’m glad I’m old
All illegal invaders should be housed in sanctuary Cities and States! They should pick up the tab for housing and feeding all of them until they decide that they will get on board by word and deed with ensuring the sovereignty of our Country! Until then, they own it all! Let’s see how long they last, “hold them to their own standards”. I believe holding them to their own standards is a Cloward-Pivens Strategy!
Of course, Biden won’t do that which is why he’s prepping a ‘Remain in Texas’ order.
All illegals should be sent to Dirty Joe’s illicit mansions in Delaware.
NYC is a sanctuary city where the migrant influx will, as Mayor Adams said will, destroy the city. Then, orders a 5% cut across the board from city departments, including police, fire, and EMS. Yet he says that NYC will remain a sanctuary for (illegal migrants.
Throw them out. Not only the invaders, but every one of the leftist shiites who are working to bring America down in wreck and ruin.
I am certain they will find peace in that socialistic wonderland, Venezuela.
Throw them out, every one.
migrants, no, they are illegal alien invaders, stop giving them legitimacy.
Everything the DemoNazi Party does is designed to undermine and destroy America. This is just another front in their war on Americans.
The ultimate insult is making American taxpayers pay for their own destruction. In some ways, they have taken a lesson from their Nazi forbearers by making Jews pay for their own destruction through confiscation of their possessions, property and businesses.
The DemoNazi Party is following Hitler’s playbook.
Daniel,
Yet another great expose of the utter corruption of the Dims in NYC & the apathy of the sheeple in the rotting Big Apple. Beside the corrupt politicos it is the latter & affluenza that is killing the remnants of the Republic. There were rich & fat slaves in Rome before the collapse. It is the same in EU, the stone-age illegal invaders are pampered on the taxpayer dime (err, billions!) Surprisingly, the only reasonable soc-dems are in Denmark. They toughened the laws re: the criminal gangs of illegals.
Have lived on the Upper W Side some 40 y ago on 97th 2 blocks from the Park. Rode English twice a week on a tall steed saying hi to the ladies jogging in leotards below me – great fun. Hung out around Midtown till 1AM after a show amazed by the energy of the City that never sleeps. Mayor Dinkins was a leftist moron but crossing the Park ~11 PM FR/SA on foot after a dinner w/ my Jewish friends on the Upper E Side wasn’t an issue. It scared them to death, though. 😉
It is shameful what happened to NYC (Chicago, Baltimore, LA, San Fran, et al) under 50 y of L-‘progs’ rule. Shame on the sheeple who vote these thugs in over & over. Enjoying the good life in the mighty Rockies – the spine of the Continent. Too bad the RINOS won’t grow any.
“Surprisingly, the only reasonable soc-dems are in Denmark.”
Surprisingly, despite all my criticisms, there is a certain reservoir of sanity in Denmark that doesn’t exist in Norway or Sweden. I once theorized it was due to a proud, accomplished and functional people being squeezed between great fighting races like the Swedes to the north, and the German colossus to the south.