(Fox News) Migrants are leaving New York City and heading north into Canada on taxpayer-funded buses, according to a new report from the New York Post.
The Big Apple is the center of the migrant crisis on the East Coast after thousands of illegal immigrants have flooded the city, with some living in ritzy, taxpayer-funded hotel rooms.
But not all migrants are pleased with life in the city, telling the New York Post that they would rather accept “free tickets” for a ride up north to Canada and better opportunities in a country with lower rates of homelessness and drug abuse.
Migrants are seen outside the Watson Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. (Jennifer Mitchell for Fox News Digital)
“I am going to Canada for a better quality of life for my family,” one migrant, named Raymond Peña told The New York Post.
Another migrant said he was “kicked out” of the Row hotel near Times Square, after which he was sent to a homeless shelter in Brooklyn.
A whistleblower at the Row Hotel released video and photos last month of illegal immigrants trashing the hotel and leaving “good” food out to rot.
“The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,” Felipe Rodriguez said.
The whistleblower also said that the Row was struggling with “domestic violence” among migrants, young people “having sex in the stairs,” and a fight between a migrant and a hotel security officer.
