Staten Island Illegal Immigration Debate Gets Heated as Group Accuses Protestors of Attempting ‘Insurrection’

‘This is getting out of hand,’ one resident told The Epoch Times.

Dozens of recently arrived illegal immigrants camp outside of New York's Roosevelt Hotel, which has been made into a reception center, as they try to secure temporary housing in New York City on Aug. 1, 2023. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A statement released by a New York City immigration center is calling on elected officials speaking out against the influx of illegal immigrants into residential Staten Island neighborhoods to be “held accountable”—and comparing their words to those trying to “execute an insurrection in DC.”

La Colmena, a nonprofit community-based organization working with “day laborers, domestic workers, and other low-wage immigrant workers” in Staten Island made the statement in a Sept. 20 press release.