Politico reports:
A contractor tapped by Mayor Eric Adams to erect a migrant tent shelter in The Bronx received hundreds of millions of dollars to build former president Trump’s border wall, a City Council member told POLITICO. Last week, Adams announced a 1,000-bed tent facility in a remote section of The Bronx that wouldn’t comply with right-to-shelter laws — but would buy him some time to find them longer-term housing.
The contractor in question is Texas-based SLSCO, according to Council Member Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn, who chairs the Committee on Immigration that will grill the Adams administration on its response to the more than 15,000 asylum seekers who have arrived since the summer. The firm was previously paid more than $200 million to work on Trump’s border wall.
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A migrant tent is being constructed in the Bronx. A New York City Council member and head of the Committee on Immigration is calling out the Eric Adams administration, however, due to the city contracting w/ a company that built Donald Trump’s border wall. https://t.co/EqOpqxLpDv
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