40 migrants found sleeping in New York City basement after neighbor complaint

FDNY inspectors discovered 40 migrants sleeping in a Queens basement after a neighbor complaint. WNBC’s Melissa Colorado reports.

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[kkristopher]

Stay at the white house, im sure there are rooms available

[marengopanthers]

how come they can’t do this for the Homeless

[ItzSeannyy]

How is this surprising in a city of over 8 million people

[bobshindorf]

The business owner heart was in the right place but didn’t make it habitable for that large group.

[frankjones]

The fact they feel safer in those conditions than in a shelter says alot lol

[gxreslvt]

I love how skeptical the store owner was of all the migrants he let live in his store's basement.

[Bwmblairdoc]

I admire these guys more for paying rent and trying to make a life for themselves. And yet they get kicked out on the street and told they had to apply for free housing.

[ginjjiigok]

Sad having a place to sleep is such a hard thing to come by

[kingslate]

America needs to stop letting in so many random immigrants from different backgrounds who all speak different languages. The U.S needs to sustain its own culture & builds its own type of identity.

[YippydaSnoop]

I thought they were supposed to come here and get jobs

[marcusdub]

Good luck affording the ridiculous rent and mortgage payments, if you can even get approved.

[SalesforceUSA]

I met some of these people in Thailand after COVID. There was a small group of Chinese who kept to themselves at our hostel. One day I overheard them in Chinese repeatedly talking about my country Mexico which got me to talk with them. They were quite happy to learn I could speak Chinese but more excited to learn I was from Mexico. They started asking me a bunch of questions about crossing the border into the US to which I bluntly told them I had no idea about and discouraged it. I asked where they got these crazy ideas from and they said that people were posting videos and tutorials of how to cross into the US online. The Chinese government hard handed approach to COVID was what made them leave. They wanted to go both for the freedom and economic benefits but they had a very naive and overly optimistic view of the US. They saw the high wages US workers were making but had no idea as to the incredibly high living costs associated with living there. I tried explaining that there was a housing shortage and that their expectations for life in the US would set them for disappointment but they either didn't believe me or brushed off my criticism. I also tried encouraging them to go to German or Australia instead (places which I feel would be better and easier for them to enter) but they seemed dead set on just going to the US. Unfortunately I don't know where they are now as Wechat is blindly and constantly blocking and deleting accounts in SE Asia without

[deadname...]

So how's that whole "Sanctuary City" thing working out for everyone.

[Pubdc]

The Haitian migrants are not being treated the same of the Venezuelan migrants

[ElverGalargaaaa]

If you bought a mattress in this store and you suspect they sold you a use one, now you know why lol

[MileyCyrious]

Other countries would not allow this!!! 30 days as a cool down period then we just let them wander off?? Ridiculous

[qvgycok]

Send them over to *BIDENS* house to live, then take care of the VETERANS of THIS country

[stilettoheel]

They got some nice mattresses box springs up in there baby!

[williams]

That good man only chargeing 300 dollars a month.god bless tim's heart

[zoomanx]

Feet, underarms, poop, pee, bad breath. The odor.