 Borough President Vito Fossella joined with a bipartisan coalition of elected officials, along with community groups, to protest a planned migrant shelter at Faith United Methodist Church in Port Richmond.
He said they were told “out of the blue” and “in the dark of night” that the proposed shelter would house 15 single males seeking asylum in the United States. “Some people in this community, volunteers, wake up every day trying to figure out, ‘how do we make Port Richmond better? How do we make the North Shore better?’” said Borough President Vito Fossella at a press conference outside of the church. “And then along come the agencies, [which] say, ‘Guess what? Here’s a way we can make it better: 'We’re gonna dump a migrant shelter right in the middle of your neighborhood.' How is that any degree of common sense?” Borough President Fossella said the elected officials vow to continue fighting the proposed Port Richmond shelter and any others proposed for or placed on Staten Island in the future. “We stand united in one voice to say this is wrong for the people of Staten Island, this is wrong for the community of Port Richmond,” he said. Comments are closed.
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