The Democratic congresswoman and other lawmakers had been visiting an emergency migrant shelter in Manhattan.
Similar anti-migrants protests sprung up outside of other sheltering centers on Thursday, including Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field and a few locations in Staten Island, the most conservative-leaning borough in New York City.
As part of a law that has been in place since the early '80s, the city is obligated to provide shelter and vital services to anyone in need, regardless of their immigration status. The recent influx of migrants being bused up from the South has resulted in the city needing to set up roughly 200 emergency shelters, which has so far cost over $2 billion.
While the visiting lawmakers' comments were partially drowned out by hecklers, NBC News reported some of Espaillat's comments, with the congressman explaining that they had wanted to"see for themselves what the migration dynamic is in our nation." He also added that, during the visit, they saw"people that want to work, [and] people that are fleeing violence, people that are fleeing environmental disasters.
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