Adriano Espaillat: “This is particularly concerning, as it relates to already poor and struggling communities.”

The conditions, the food conditions are horrible. We feel that they’re not getting medical services. We feel that they’re overcrowded, and they’re denied their fundamental rights.

We need to be careful of fair weather friends that come around and say that the rent is too high.

We’re fighting this from the legal front and the budgeting front and the legislative front. And we’re fighting this in public opinion.

They are not criminals they… have been ripped from their families and thrown in here.