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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Alex Stein, Member of the Public
2:01:08
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165 sec
Alex Stein criticizes the City Council's approach to veteran homelessness, arguing that illegal immigrants receive better treatment and resources than veterans in New York City.
- Compares the living conditions and services provided to illegal immigrants with those offered to homeless veterans
- Accuses the city of virtue signaling and not genuinely caring about veterans' welfare
- Suggests expelling illegal immigrants from city-provided accommodations to make room for veterans
Alex Stein
2:01:08
My name is Alex Stein.
2:01:09
I just wanna say thank you to the council for having this, but let's just be honest.
2:01:13
I mean, this is just an exercise in some sort of weird virtue signal where you wanna act like you care about veterans when in reality you don't care about veterans.
2:01:21
We're sitting here.
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We're talking about fluorescent lighting inside of a homeless shelter.
2:01:25
Right?
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But let's talk about the thousands of illegal immigrants that get to live in Manhattan rent free for months on end.
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And not only that, when they get the free food, we we we spend millions of dollars on the food.
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And you know what they say?
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We don't like this food.
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This food is not typical to what we eat in Venezuela.
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So you know what New York City is gonna do?
2:01:43
New York City is gonna go and we're gonna spend millions of dollars to give these illegal immigrants gift cards while veterans are out here literally freezing on the streets right now.
2:01:53
So we're talking about a homeless shelter for some veterans when if I say that I'm asylum seeker, if I'm a terrorist from Venezuela and I was a Trinidad Ruge gang member and I said, I'm coming here to claim asylum because this is such a great sanctuary city, you're gonna give me a free hotel in Manhattan, but a person that goes to Iraq and defends our country against the actual Taliban, they don't get any social services?
2:02:15
Or if they do get social services, it's not a four star hotel in the middle of Manhattan.
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I don't is boarding in the middle of Manhattan, at a four star establishment?
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I don't think so.
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So why do illegal immigrants in New York City get better conditions than our veterans who go out there and risk their lives for American citizens?
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Not just do they risk their lives for New Yorkers, they risk their lives for everybody in this country.
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And believe it or not, these veterans risk their lives for these illegal immigrants.
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They get to take advantage of New York social services.
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So you wanna sit here, you wanna act like you wanna help somebody.
2:02:43
Why don't you do something about all the people taking advantage of this city, the hardworking American citizens that are struggling, but you don't care about them.
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You'd rather give an illegal immigrant that has a criminal history longer than a damn CVS receipt.
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You'd rather give him free room and board and a gift card to eat at any New York establishment that he chooses.
2:03:01
That is wrong.
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New York City is the, it's the epicenter of culture.
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New York leads the way of our country.
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So the fact that we have a country like this that is just, discarding these veterans and treating them as they are less than a normal citizen, this city should be ashamed of themselves.
2:03:19
Mayor Adams should be ashamed of themselves.
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All the people on these councils should be ashamed of themselves because you sit here and you say, well, I don't know if I can get it passed.
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This should be a bipartisan issue.
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You don't think that veterans, help out Republicans and Democrats?
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This is common sense.
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So New York City doesn't have common sense.
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Thank God Donald Trump got rid of that congestion pricing.
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That has cost me hundreds of dollars in Uber prices every time I visit this city.
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So thank God that that is gone.
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And help out our veterans by kicking every illegal immigrant out of the Roosevelt Hotel except for the big booty Latinas, they can stay.
2:03:51
If you're a nine, you're fine.