Trump criticizes migrant housing in luxury hotels in the middle of difficulties

President Donald Trump criticized taxpayers money on Tuesday to host migrants in “luxury hotels” while others continue to fight to afford the necessities.

Trump returned to the United States after a four-day trip to Scotland when he was asked about mass migration in the United Kingdom.

A journalist stressed that many in the United Kingdom challenged the housing migrants in hotels to the detriment of taxpayers while their asylum complaints are processed and asked whether Great Britain needed its own “Alligator Alcatraz”.

It was a reference to the illegal detention center for Florida immigrants on a property of 30 square miles in the swamps of the Everglades.

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President Donald Trump speaks with journalists in the Air Force One after leaving Aberdeen, Scotland, for Washington. Trump has mocked against hotels used to house taxpayers’ expenses while speaking with journalists. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin; Luiz C. Ribeiro for Ny Daily News via Getty Images)

“They put people in luxury hotels and other people who work their —- offer hand in their mouths. They do not live in the same way,” said Trump on the Air Force One. “I looked at some of the hotels they use.”

Trump noted that illegal immigrants in some parts of the United States have also been accommodated in hotels.

“They placed them as the best hotels in the world,” he said. “Thousands of dollars per night, and other people live on the streets, including our veterans. They cannot have a room.

Migrants are waiting for registration outside the Roosevelt hotel in Midtown Manhattan on August 1, 2023. (Julia Bonavita / Fox News Digital)

“There are photos of our veterans who stay just near the door where they enter to live, and the veterans sit on the sidewalk in front of a fantasy hotel. And the illegals enter this hotel and stay for a week,” he added. “It’s not good.”

In 2023, Fox News reported that the pretensions of the homeless were moved to hotels in New York State were false.

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Migrants meet outside the Roosevelt hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants camped while they are trying to obtain temporary housing on August 2, 2023 in New York. (Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images)

However, the same year in Massachusetts, the families of soldiers who reserved rooms Foxboro, MassachusettsThe site of the 124th Army-Navy Football Game at the Gillette Stadium, received notice of cancellation of hotels which were used by the State to host migrants.

In June, the Roosevelt hotel in Manhattan, which was one of the main migrant shelters in the city, closed its doors.

The converted site, which has around 1,000 rooms, treated more than 173,000 migrants Since its opening in May 2023, the city said.

The hotel was linked to the activity of the gangs, and the Ministry of Justice launched in May an investigation into the Roosevelt, which belongs to the government of Pakistan, and to the Stewart hotel, which was also transformed into a migrant shelter.

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New York taxpayers have paid billions of dollars to pay the accommodation for more than 232,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since spring 2022.