The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into hotels in New York City that were accused of operating as shelters for illegal aliens on taxpayers’ dime.
CBS News reported that federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York sent subpoenas to multiple hotels involved in the program, including the Roosevelt Hotel and the Stewart Hotel.
A third hotel, the Hotel Chandler, was also subpoenaed, but it has not been accused of housing illegal aliens.
The New York Post reported that a nearby hotel, the Candler Building, has been used as an illegal alien shelter and that prosecutors might have issued a subpoena to the wrong hotel.
Investigators sought evidence and testimony from the hotels over “an alleged violation” of federal immigration law, the subpoenas said.
Hotels were asked for the names of entities and people who were responsible for the “funding and management of the illegal immigrant/migrant shelter program,” the subpoenas said.
The report said New York City has not yet been subpoenaed in the investigation.
The Daily Wire reported that nearly a quarter million illegal aliens came to New York City during President Joe Biden’s term, which saw more than 10 million illegal aliens come into the U.S. The tsunami of migrants in the Big Apple reportedly spurred Mayor Eric Adams to spend an estimated $7 billion related to their care.
The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. is estimated to have surged to more than 18 million after the Biden-era border crisis, according to a new research report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
The updated rate is 11% higher than an estimate the group published in June 2023, when it found that there were 16.8 million illegal immigrants. Overall, it is estimated that the population has grown by 4.1 million or 28.2% since December 2020.
FAIR estimates that there were around 11.7 million illegal immigrants in 2013.
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Biden should be criminally prosecuted for ENDANGERING the lives of MILLIONS of Americans
CLEAN the entire country of illegal occupants and START ANEW – this laxity has gotten out of hand
That IS why countries have borders and Immigration Laws, ad WHY the people need to make sure to elect those who represent THE PEOPLE and NOT other entities
I think an investigation on the Governor should be opened as well. She wants to be a part of the problem rather than the solution.