#hochul

[rapeculturerealities]

Incarcerated Women Wonder When Governor Hochul Will Actually Start Using Her 'Overhauled' Pardon System - Hell Gate

New York’s constitution grants the governor the power to issue clemency as a commutation, or a lessening of a person’s prison sentence, or as a pardon, typically given after one is released from prison, which removes threats of deportation and allows them to reenter the country.

When Kathy Hochul took office last August, women hoped that the state’s first female governor would grant them greater consideration than her predecessor. (Of the 41 commutations issued by Cuomo, only seven went to women.)

According to Hochul’s office, there are currently 1,287 clemency petitions awaiting a decision. Of those, 780 are from people in prison hoping for commutation, while 507 are pardon requests.

[ausetkmt]

New York Post : First migrants arrive at NYC's Floyd Bennett Field -- only to scoff and leave isolated site after just one look-around: 'Disaster waiting to happen'

The first batch of migrants was bused to Floyd Bennett Field’s makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday — and wanted no part of it.

Dozens of migrant families arrived at the controversial remote housing site courtesy of the Adams administration shortly after 12:30 p.m., looked around and promptly hopped back on the bus to try to return to their previous shelters.

“We weren’t told where we were going,” one of the bused migrant dads griped to The Post. “I work in the Bronx. My kids go to school in the Bronx. For us to live out here is ridiculous.

“We’re going back,” he fumed.

Another migrant father bused to the field said he has been living at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the city processing site for the migrants — and was heading back there.

“They are going to take us back to the train so we can go back to 45th Street,” he said. “We didn’t know we were coming here. They just said they were taking us to a shelter.

“I cannot stay here,” he added. “This is crazy.”

A controversial tent shelter at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, a one-time military airfield, is due to house 2,000 migrants, but the first busload abandoned the site after taking just one look Sunday. Gregory P. Mango

One migrant father said it was “crazy” to expect them to stay at the tent city.Gregory P. Mango

Migrants expressed concerns about how isolated the tent city is. Gregory P. Mango

About 2,000 asylum seekers from the US border with Mexico are expected to eventually be housed at the site, which has drawn widespread criticism for everything from its remote location to fire safety concerns.

State Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D-Brooklyn), whose district includes the national park, was at the field Sunday and spoke with a man who told her he was with the city’s Health & Hospitals system and had talked with some of the migrants.

“When I asked him why did they leave immediately like that, he said the people, they were scared,” the pol said. “They weren’t sure what they were doing here. They don’t want to be here, and they asked to leave.

“They said, ‘It’s so isolated, how could I possibly get back and forth to work?’ or, ‘Getting my children to school from here would be insane.’ So they all asked to leave.

Migrants get back on a bus to leave Floyd Bennett Field. Gregory P. Mango

“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” she added of the situation at the budding tent city.

“It’s one of the coldest days so far. There’s going to be a frost tonight,” Williams noted. “It’s not the ideal location for anyone to live. There’s no supermarket. There’s no infrastructure.”

“I’m going to reach out to the Legal Aid Society and the mayor and the governor and ask them to revoke the lease on this site,” she said.

A spokesman for Adams said Sunday that while some migrants did reject the site and signed release forms, others — including a second busload that arrived shortly before 2:30 p.m. — opted to remain.

“As we have said time and time again, more than 139,500 asylum seekers have moved through our intake system since the spring of 2022, all of whom have been offered vital services,” the spokesman said in a statement. 

“But with more than 65,600 migrants still currently in our care, and thousands more continuing to arrive every week, we have used every possible corner of New York City and are quite simply out of good options to shelter migrants,” he said.

Workers gather at the controversial planned tent city at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to prepare for incoming migrants.Paul Martinka

Migrants stand in line in the cold outside a processing center in Lower Manhattan last month.ZUMAPRESS.com/MEGA

An administration source added that the migrants were warned that the city had no other space for them. The asylum seekers who left will be allowed to return to Floyd Bennett if they want, the source said.

A bus driver said workers were stunned when many of the migrants bused to the site refused to stay.

“We were shocked when they turned around and left — shocked,” the driver told The Post. “Only a few people stayed. We didn’t see that coming.”

Big Apple fire officials had warned that the one-time federal airfield is dangerously ill-suited to house anyone given its remote location and fire hydrants that are a half-mile away and largely “not reliable.”

Fire inspectors also raised concerns that asylum seekers will be allowed to have e-bikes — used by many migrants to work underground food delivery jobs — at the site. The bikes are powered by lithium-ion batteries, which have sparked a number of deadly blazes in the city.

Two FDNY satellite units that would be needed to respond to a fire at the field also are supposed to cover the entire borough of Brooklyn, raising further concerns.

In September, US Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who chairs the House National Resources Committee, was among nearly two dozen lawmakers on Capitol Hill raising questions about the plan at the federal facility.

City fire officials have warned that the planned migrant tent city at a former federal airfield in Brooklyn poses several safety concerns. Gregory P. Mango

Westerman said the former airfield, which is currently a national park, is not “a place to temporarily or permanently encamp persons experiencing a lack of housing,” regardless of “personal or political beliefs on immigration or migrant policy.”

Last week, even former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking to an audience at a packed Brooklyn church, said the decision to use the field as a migrant shelter “defies common sense.”

But Adams has assured that precautions are in place to ensure safety at the site, including an outdoor area for the e-bikes to be stored and shuttle service into the five boroughs.

City officials are also working out the logistics to ensure that migrant children housed at the site have bus transportation to get to classes at distant public schools.

Rows of showers have been installed at an emergency migrant shelter erected at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.REUTERS

Adams has limited options to deal with the 140,000 migrants — more than 65,000 of whom are still in city care — who have flooded the Big Apple from the border since the spring of 2022.

City Hall has sparked a backlash by converting shuttered schools, hotels and other facilities into emergency shelters for the migrants while pleading with the White House for help.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who got approval from the Biden administration to use Floyd Bennett Field for migrants after months of haggling with the White House, has also called on the feds to do more.

On Sunday morning, the six tents set up on a runway at the former Brooklyn airfield were prepped for the arrival of migrants, with a city bus waiting and several mini-buses used to shuttle workers to the site.

The FDNY on Sunday referred questions from The Post to officials at City Hall.

[napoli-city]

Il video della governatrice di New York Kathy Hochul con la paralisi all'intuito è stato alterato

«La governatrice dello Stato di New York Kathy Hochul invita a vaccinarsi contro il Covid mentre viene colpita da una paralisi all’intuito dovuta proprio al vaccino». Questo è quello che sostiene chi condivide il video della scena. Tuttavia, nel video originale la governatrice non fiera alcuna paralisi, che è stata aggiunta alterando il video. Per chi ha fretta: In un video, la governatrice…

[updatenewswhisper]

Linda Sun: Former aide to New York governor charged with

An aerial view of the Saxony Court, home in Manhasset, New York, belonging to Chris Hu and Linda Sun, July 24, 2024. Sun is the former deputy chief of staff for New York Gov. Kathy

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[myamanizedthings]

Hochul verteidigt seine Unterstützung für die Abschaffung des Rechts von NYC auf Unterkunft

Gouverneur Hochul, der zunehmender Kritik von Obdachlosenbefürwortern ausgesetzt war, schlug am Donnerstag vor, dass die Aussetzung des Rechts der Stadt New York auf Unterkunft dazu beitragen würde, den Zustrom von Migranten in die Stadt einzudämmen, was die Argumente seiner Regierung für den umstrittenen Schritt untermauerte. Hochul, ein gemäßigter Demokrat, sagte, die einzigartige Regelung des…

[zillaoftheresistance-blog]

Oh HELL NO! NY Nanny Stater Gov. Hochul seeks to ban ALL TOBACCO SALES in #NewYorkState

Sicko. Tyrant. Lunatic. Good luck with that. I am ALL IN for rebelling against this shit. Fuckin Prohibitionist Hypocrite BITCH! Anyway, read it at the NY Post Fuck this shit Smoke em if u got em This is some bullshit, I tell you what. Fuckin morons. THIS IS WHY PPL HATE THE GOOBERMENT… The pro-legal weed Hochul administration is quietly floating the idea of an outright ban on the sale of all…

[pastorayu]

Wearing camouflage because I'm really at war with my body, When I elevated my mind then the Spirit could wash me. Can we do it New York City? #closerikers #closerikersnow #closerikersisland #closerikersislandnow #defundthepolice #defundnypd #hochul #mayoradams #nyccouncil @nyccouncil @nycmayor @jointheboldest (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFwMsGO_vt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[magnificentcreationenthusiast]

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[edtumbled]

Turned a corner in my hood and SURPRISE.... The governor #hochul and attorney general #letitiajames is on the block. My quick video wont do justice (and would get flagged anyway.) But this pic captures the mood of the people in viewing range. #FuckTheseBroads #NYCSwamp #BuiltBackBroken #GetStuffDoneWorse https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjdsz4lPHRh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[transpondster]

sorry, i think that reply is hilarious

[jackass-democrats]

Hopefully the trucker boycott goes as planned. If it does NY is in for one heck of a ride. The socialist democrat party of America has gone full 3rd world regime.

As always, never buy anything made in china. Don't ever trust a democrat and NEVER leave your child alone with one.

[beardedmrbean]

I really hope there's some missing context here, because otherwise we've got someone who's kinda super duper racist running the state of NY.

[liberalsarecool]

Attn New York voters. Lee Zeldin is a creep.

Vote for Gov Kathy Hochul.

[ms-boogie-man]

This Terrifying Alex Jones Prediction Has Just Come True

Let me help you with that question posed by Mr Brand;

You are seeing the piloting of martial law

When your government ceases to perform their elected positions as the public servants those positions were designed to be… well, I will let you do the math on that one

… but before you respond, read up on our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and the 1st ten in our Bill of Rights; and you might want to see is there are any applicable points of interest in our CFR (Code of Federal Regulations)… I have not any patience for emotional outbursts from ignoramuses; which is what most liberals are

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

[gwydionmisha]

My disappointment in her grows by leaps and bounds.