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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_ir0e6zo wrote

Reply to comment by HEIMDVLLR in NYC Moving Tent City Built to Help Asylum Seekers From Bronx to Randall's Island by Sanlear

So does my neighborhood and likely the one in the Bronx where they were building the encampment in the first place. There’s plenty of reasons to criticize the move without throwing the homeless under the bus as some awful population to be nearby

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HEIMDVLLR t1_ir0gapq wrote

Trust me that wasn’t my intentions.

The point I was trying to make is, they’re pushing these asylum seekers further away, out of sight and out of mind.

The city uses Randall’s island as a means to satisfy the NIMBY’s. “Place them over there on that island, where we send everyone we don’t want in our neighborhood”

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app4that t1_ir0nb12 wrote

Funny part of poking fun of NIMBY is that once violent crime and/or property crime spikes no one wants derelicts, homeless, offenders or addicts in their neighborhood, I don’t care who they are.

And to be honest, if these places are not being actively monitored for criminal activity (and I don’t believe they ever are) then don’t put these places filled with people prone to crime in neighborhoods where families or seniors live.

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