The handling of the growing problem of illegal immigration by the City of New York has deeply disappointed Lady Gaga’s father. He is particularly concerned about the effects these policies have had on his own neighborhood, which used to be a calm and pleasant area.
Joe Germanotta, a well-known restaurant proprietor in New York City’s Upper West Side since 2012 and the father of the celebrated musician “Born This Way,” has assumed a new position as a community leader. Germanotta is leading efforts to fight for reform at city hall as a result of the increasing hazardous conditions in his area as a result of the city’s choice to house hundreds of illegal aliens in a former residence hall built for music, art, and theater students.
The New York Post reported that since the city relocated many undocumented people to the Stratford Arms Hotel, the sense of safety, peace, and wealth that formerly characterized his community has changed.
Germanotta expressed worry about the neighborhood’s rising danger. She made the point that young people who are not legally residing in the country are engaged in unsafe conduct including late-night drinking, drug use, and risky e-bike and motor scooter riding throughout the streets at all hours of the day and night.
Additionally, there is loitering and littering, not to mention the sharp increase in open prostitution and the sudden appearance of discarded hypodermic needles everywhere.
The city and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) teamed up a few months ago to relocate artistic students from the Stratford Arms Hotel and house some 500 people without proper paperwork. However, neither AMDA nor the city informed the neighborhood that the proposal involved hosting people without legal status, despite the hotel informing the schoolchildren about the need to vacate within two weeks.
The hotel invasion in New York was planned with duplicity.
“It was a stealth operation. They were bused in the middle of the night, like when they flew them into Westchester, they didn’t want anybody to know what was going on,” Germanotta said. “It was all pretty rapid.”
“There’s now 500 migrants living in that dormitory. That’s when all the mayhem began,” Germanotta told the Post.
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“Since the arrival of the migrants, the restaurateur said the quality of life in the area has taken a hit, with impromptu block parties outside the hotel that last into the early morning, prostitution, kids getting catcalled, and reckless e-bikes and motor-scooter drivers wreaking havoc on one-way streets,” the Post reported.
“[New York City’s Heath and Hospitals Corporation’s] answer was, ‘We’ll build a bike corral,’” Germanotta scoffed. “You’re just enabling ’em,” he told the Post.
Germanotta has joined forces with the West 70th Street Association, a group of property and business owners. They have banded together to voice their worries about the influx of migrants and have presented their case to City Hall in New York.
Germanotta is concerned for the safety of women in the area since there are gangs of rowdy, unemployed young men who harass women and even young girls as young as 14 in public places.
Due to their lack of employment and lack of other options, these illegal immigrant gangs have made many locals frightened to even walk their pets for fear of being assaulted.
Germanotta declares that he accepts immigrants in his community.
“I don’t mind having them there. They’re gonna be there for three years. That was the contract, I understand. But at least manage it. Put the proper security in place, have a police presence and a code of conduct,” he said.
But he added, “They’re guests in our neighborhood, and they have basically taken over.”
Despite Germanotta and his organization members alerting the authorities to the problems brought on by the undocumented people, the city didn’t seem to have any real remedies.
Germanotta denounced AMDA, the business that rents the structure to the city for the purpose of housing unauthorized immigrants.
“AMDA is getting very, very rich off this, and they screwed the neighborhood,” Frenchotta complained.
The pop star’s father thinks it would have been preferable to temporarily revoke the designation of “sanctuary city” until enough housing was available. He advised allowing more people to arrive once extra accommodation was found. However, the city made the decision to let a substantial influx of people prior to finding a solution to the housing issue.
“The really sad part is that in the neighborhood, we still have our share of veterans and homeless — but we’re not taking care of our own. They don’t get food every day. It’s really sad. I feel for them,” Germanotta concluded.
It’s intriguing that Germanotta considered “suspending” the city’s designation as a “sanctuary”. Truth be told, the whole situation appears to demonstrate that the original “sanctuary” regulations were ineffective. Because as soon as many illegal immigrants arrived, there was no room for them.
These Democrat-run states found it incredibly simple to embrace illegal immigration when none were knocking on their doors. But now that the illegal immigrants have arrived, a lot of New Yorkers are suddenly doubting their cherished sanctuary policies.
Of all, this perilous surge is threatening more than just New York. The same flood of illegal immigrants is bringing illness, sexual assault, and violence to every state in the US and forcing them to spend millions of tax dollars that they would not have otherwise. And all of this can be credited to Joe Biden, who gave the impression that the United States had an open-door policy and that anyone could just stroll through the border.
A country does not exist if there are no borders.
