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The Pakistani government suffered a wound with a cash limitation after New York moved to cancel a $ 220 million contract with a hotel that owns, which has become a criticism of US President Donald Trump supporters.
The State Pakistani International Air Society received a century old Roosevelt in Manhattan more than two decades ago. Since 2023, the hotel has been used for hosting or processing more than 100,000 immigrants from all over the US.
This week, however, the mayor of New York Eric Adams said that the city would close shelter and said that the number of immigrants entering New York dropped to 350 a week from 4,000 a week two years ago.
Adams said that more than 232,000 migrants have come to New York over the last three years. “Hotel Roosevelt was a place where we worked out 75% of those who got into our care, and it was crucial to our effective operations,” he said on X.
At the beginning of the three -year contract, it is a failure for Pakistan because it seeks to privatize its flag carriers, which was a great drag of state finances. Last year, the first round of bids for the aviation company set out to worry about the investor for matters, including new aircraft taxes and maintaining employees.
“We were aware of the risk with this new government.” [the Trump administration] Settlement, ”said one higher government official in Pakistan. The contract could be canceled after May, the official said.
The city spokesman said the center would close in the “coming months”, saving “millions of dollars” taxpayers.
Adams' decision to close the shelter came two weeks after the US Ministry of Justice They dropped the accusation of corruption against himCritics who say it was part of Quid Pro quo with Trump's administration to intensify the intervention against illegal immigrants. Adams denied the claim.
The once luxury Roosevelt, which has more than 1,000 rooms and has been for decades, was rented in 1979 for decades. The airline later bought it, which makes it popular ghostly Pakistans who used the now striking service of the airline from Karachi.
The hotel, however, gradually fell out of kindness and finally forced the pandemic loss in 2020.
The proceeds from the Migrants Hiding Agreement helped repay more than 600 billion RS ($ 2.14 billion) in debt that PIA holding company was created last year, which is a step focused on exterming the privatization of assets that includes the main airline and the Parisian hotel.
Among the officials and supporters of Trump's administration grew intensive will of the use of Roosevelt in New York.
Vivek Ramaswama, who previously led the so -called Department of Government Effectiveness together with Elon Musk, said in December that it was “nuts” in December, that “NY taxers effectively pays the foreign government for the difficulty in our country”.
Trump himself complained about the city in February using large amounts in a hotel, which he said “is not a luxury”.
In the post for X, his Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem justified the decision to freeze $ 80 million in migration related to New York by the fact that the hotel was a “base of operation” for the Venezuelan gang. Noem provided no evidence of claim.
At the beginning of the contract, Islamabad could force Islamabad to speed up the efforts to sell real estate or knock it and build a skyscraper with mixed use with a developmental partner, officials and analysts in Pakistan said.
At the hotel, near the Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan, residents filter in and out of the building, exchange greetings and fist with safety staff for metal barriers.
Children living in the hotel play on the sidewalk outside, steps from utility restaurants and clothing stores.
Inside, the hotel hall still has its decorated chandeliers and portrait of Guy Lombard, a renowned leader of Roosevelt's domestic group in the 1930s.
The planned closure of the hotel's intestine was worried about some of its more than 2,800 inhabitants.
“The truth is that they didn't tell us anything,” said Hecdimar Rivas, a 26 -year -old mother of three, who came from Venezuela early this year. “We found it out of the press.”
