President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One after leaving Aberdeen, Scotland, for Washington. Trump railed against hotels being used to house migrants at taxpayer expense while speaking with reporters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin; Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
"They're putting people in luxury hotels and other people that are working their a---- off are living from hand to mouth. They're not living the same way," Trump said aboard Air Force One. "I've looked at some of the hotels they're using."
Trump noted that illegal immigrants in some parts of the U.S. have also been housed in hotels.
"They put them in like the best hotels anywhere in the world," he said. "Thousands of dollars a night, and other people are living out in the streets, including our veterans. They can't get a room.
Migrants gather outside the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants have been camping out as they try to secure temporary housing Aug. 2, 2023, in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
However, that same year in Massachusetts, military families who booked rooms in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the site of the 124th Army-Navy football Game at Gillette Stadium, received cancellation notices from hotels that were being used by the state to house migrants.
In June, the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, which served as one of the main migrant shelters in the city, closed its doors.
The converted site, which has around 1,000 rooms, processed more than 173,000 migrants since its opening in May 2023, the city said.
The hotel was linked to gang activity, and the Justice Department in May launched a probe into the Roosevelt, which is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the Stewart Hotel, which was also transformed into a migrant shelter.
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New York City taxpayers have forked out billions of dollars to pay for housing for more than 232,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022.
Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.
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