"luxury hotels" is, of course, a lie

I suspect that is true. Have any of these luxury hotels been identified? I'd like to look them up and check on the level of luxury.

If FEMA is paying $2-3K per night to house individual migrants that should certainly be looked into.

I'd like to look them up and check on the level of luxury.

The article says the city was paying an average of $156/night for hotel rooms. Is that "luxury" in NYC? I always thought NYC was really expensive.

They are illegal aliens.

The article says they are asylum seekers. Is seeking asylum illegal?

Yea they're illegals.

Not yet. Entering a country to seek asylum is not illegal. Lewzer will fix that, but he hasn't yet.

The people in NYC were asylum seekers. It's as simple as that. Therefore, not illegal aliens.

Only if they go through an established port of entry.

That is not true either, provided that they present themselves right away as seeking asylum.

Maybe true in Canada.

It's true in any country that is a signatory of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951.

This includes the USA, until Lewzer pulls out of it.

They don't have to report immediately.

They do if they enter illegally. Some tidbits from the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, of which the US is a signatory:

The contracting states shall not:

-discriminate against refugees (Article 3)

-take exceptional measures against a refugee solely on account of his or her nationality (Article 8)

-impose penalties on refugees who entered illegally in search of asylum if they present themselves without delay (Article 31), which is commonly interpreted to mean that their unlawful entry and presence ought not to be prosecuted at all

-expel refugees (Article 32)

-forcibly return or "refoul" refugees to the country they have fled from (Article 33). It is widely accepted that the prohibition of forcible return is part of customary international law.