Calls mount to shut NYC migrant shelter on Randall's Island. Here's why the city is feeling the heat.

NEW YORK -- The tents have got to go. That's the message from a community group pushing to get a migrant shelter off of Randall's Island.That group is threatening legal action, but city officials said Tuesday they have no alternatives.From the outset, community groups did not like the idea of usurping eight acres of ball fields and parkland on Randall's Island for a 3,000-bed migrant shelter.

'We don't have alternatives. And so this is a way that we're able to stretch our resources and house people and really continue to keep a pace with a flow of migrants that are coming to New York City without having them sleep on the street,' Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi said bluntly.Adams implied that the Randall's Island group was like all the other elected officials who want migrants taken care of, just not where they live. He's apparently planning to write about it.

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