Causing the exhaustion of migrants and preventing more from arriving, some residents of Staten Island, New York, decided “bomb” this Monday with an incessant and deafening recording to the foreigners who were placed in the former St. John Villa Academy, which currently functions as a shelter.
“The use of legal psychological warfare is fair game,” said John Tabacco, a former independent candidate for city controller, to New York Post.
Played the sound with a professional speaker from the property of Scott Herkert, who has lived right next to the school for more than two decades.
Indeed, Herkert complained last month because city workers installed security cameras outside his home. At that time he stated that He no longer recognized his country and felt like a prisoner in your own neighborhood.
Many of the inhabitants have protested against to the decision of Mayor Eric Adams to place, without prior notice, the undocumented immigrants in that place.
In the incessant recording played on loop by Tabacco, he said: ““Mayor Eric Adams is lying to you,” as cited New YorkPost.
“This shelter is not safe for you.”
Said in the academy the migrants are overcrowded (300 people in each room) and they have no privacy or bathrooms. He also tried to give the impression that the shelter is outside the city, saying that migrants would find comfort in a hotel that is “located in New York.”
“Don’t get off the bus, tell them you want to go back to the hotel. This shelter has rats and cockroaches, “This building has mold and is not safe for you,” he said in the recording.
St. John Villa Academy had presented a sewage overflow, but it has not been reported that it is full of mold, rats and cockroaches, the media indicated. This former school, he added, is equipped with open-air bathrooms for migrants who will be there temporarily.
Tabacco workers have also distributed flyers with the same messages at the luxurious Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Manhattan. The man acknowledged that He came up with this campaign after he interviewed migrants that they were staying there.
“They told me that they were lying to them (…) They are telling them: ‘Come! We have air-conditioned buses for you. They’ll fly you to New York, put you up in a nice hotel room and give you a debit card’ and, you know, They thought they had made it, the American dream,” he expressed.
According to Tabacco, he is only “telling the truth” to people who come to Staten Island.
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