The heated rhetoric over the migrant standoff in midtown Manhattan obscured a stark reality

Key Facts

• To many, the scene that unfolded over the last week in Hell’s Kitchen was perplexing: Why would migrants sleep on a freezing sidewalk rather than accept a bed and food in Brooklyn?
• The migrants’ protest, spurred by their removal from the Watson Hotel, ignited red-hot political rhetoric from all angles.
• And once again, the migrants found themselves caught in a political swirl.
• But the noise obscured an important reality: The thousands of migrants who have arrived over the past months are growing increasingly frustrated and angry with life in New York.

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