Hundreds of migrants are seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan early Monday July 31, 2023, in New York. - Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — When it’s hot out, Shalisa Richardson likes to take her two young girls from their Bed-Stuy home to the McCarren Pool. On her most recent trip, Richardson noticed something different: Just outside the pool area, migrants were coming in and out of the rec center. She’s protective of her daughters and is worried about the male asylum seekers. She’s reconsidering the family pool visits. New York is at the center of a global migration crisis, and the front lines are creeping to locals’ pools, parks, senior centers and soccer fields. More than a year after buses from the southern border ...
