Remember when America was a First World country?
That was nice. I miss that.
The fatal migrant stabbing at the Randall's Island tent city was over a woman, law-enforcement sources said Sunday -- while asylum-seekers described life in the shelter as full of armed rivals and divisive "camps."
The 24-year-old victim was inside the cafeteria tent at the sprawling shelter around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when he got into a beef with a fellow asylum-seeker who had been talking to the man's girlfriend, sources told The Post.
During the dispute, the victim was assaulted by four people, sources said. One of the suspects, 26, then whipped out a knife and stabbed the victim in the neck and chest area, sources said.
The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police recovered the knife at the scene and arrested the suspected stabber, while his three accomplices are in the wind, sources said.
Venezuelan immigrant Roger Castillo said of the dead man, "He was a good person, he was a good friend.
"There is not much security, and they are far away," Castillo said of guards. "It happens so fast."
Migrants at the makeshift shelter, which was erected last year to house the overflow of migrants flooding into the five boroughs from the US border, have been problematic, some asylum-seekers said.
They said some of the migrants around them have split into "camps" based on their ethnicity and native countries, with Hispanics, Africans and Haitians occasionally at odds, while many are armed with knives and typically petty crimes can be rampant.
"Everyone has a knife," migrant Mauricio Pinto said.
Moroccan migrant Nabil Jajhlaq added, "There is a lot of stealing.
"If you put your phone down or your charger for a moment, they take it immediately. Any of your stuff that you don't have they will take.
"There is definitely camps," he said.
The illegals have established their own rogue homeless camp on Randall's Island in NYC.
Migrants booted from Big Apple shelters have been setting up an illegal mini-tent city outside Randall's Island's housing site -- despite the Adams administration's best efforts to thwart them.
"For the past month or so, we will come here, and there'll be one or two tents set up, and we'll ask them to take them down," a city Parks Department enforcement officer told The Post at the site on Sunday.
"But every day when we come back, there's more."
Parks workers on Sunday morning broke down one shabby encampment that had been housing about 21 asylum-seekers barred from the island's 2,000-bed tent city erected in August after timing out on its 60-day residency limit.
The rogue migrants had set up their own tarps and tents on a grassy strip just outside the tent city, even erecting tables to peddle coffee and hot chocolate to other asylum-seekers legally living in the site's massive sanctioned tents.
Migrants camping outside the increasingly lawless Randall's Island tent city were spotted selling everything from burgers to blunts on Monday -- as Mayor Eric Adams said the city would be reviewing shelter security following a fatal weekend stabbing.
The group of asylum-seekers who set up camp outside the island's 2,000-bed site after being booted for timing out on the city residency limit appeared locked in a cat-and-mouse game with Parks Department officials -- who tore down the encampment Sunday only to have it rise up again.
The leftwing propaganda media has a solution to all of this: just stop talking about it! Talking about the problem is informing the citizens there's a problem, and we have an election to rig!
The city's migrant crisis has become "a specter that demagogues can use as the threat du jour," says City Councilman Justin Brannan. "It used to be 'defund the police' or bail reform. Now this is the new thing they can divide and conquer on."
Count this as yet another retread of the "Republicans pounce" gimmick: Shoot the messengers.
Brannan (D-B'klyn) offered up his "wisdom" in a Politico piece blaming Mayor Adams and The Post for "ceaseless, dire messaging" on the border, which is "threatening Democrats in a pivotal election year."
Just as our reporting on crime, and Adams' related rhetoric, supposedly confused voters and helped Republicans pick up several House seats in 2022.
The piece slammed the mayor for "rarely" letting "a week go by without issuing new pleas for Washington to help stem the flow of migrants into the nation's biggest city."
The bottom line: Stop talking about the border; you're making Democrats look bad.
This much is true: A whopping 84% of New Yorkers consider the influx of migrants a serious problem.
But pretending the issue is messaging, not President Biden's policies, is a delusional farce.
The situation will get worse as frigid conditions descend on most of the country. In the East Village, immigrants are competing for limited shelter spaces:
Meanwhile, in this shithole country's shithole capital: