Ten unruly migrants were busted early Sunday near a Manhattan hotel-turned-lodging for asylum-seekers, as the Big Apple grapples with its overwhelming immigration influx.
The arrested migrants, who are currently or were previously sheltered at the Stewart Hotel, were rounded up on assault and disorderly-conduct charges around 4:30 a.m. near West 31st Street and Seventh Avenue after two separate drunken scuffles, law-enforcement sources said.
Four of the migrants were charged with assault, while the other six were hit with disorderly-conduct raps, after getting into fights and filing complaints against each other, the sources said.
All of the migrants refused medical aid at the scene.
The violence comes after a Jan. 22 migrant melee at the hotel that had two sheltered asylum-seekers hurling bottles at another man, who allegedly then stabbed the pair, police said.
Sunday’s melee comes as New York City continues to scramble to find shelter for thousands of migrants being bused to the Big Apple — with more expected to arrive after the expiration of the Title 42 emergency order last week.
On Saturday, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the historic 1,000-room Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown, which has been closed for three years, would become the city’s main “asylum seeker arrival shelter.”
A former public school on Staten Island on Saturday also began taking in the first of 300 migrants scheduled to be housed there. Neighbors of the former Richard H. Hungerford School on Tompkins Avenue complained that they were given no advance notice of the move.
Adams also has been getting pushback from upstate communities in Westchester, Rockland and Orange Counties, where the city has bused or plans to bus immigrants who are flooding the five boroughs.
A Ramada Inn hotel in Yonkers was due to begin receiving 100 migrant families Sunday, leaving local Mayor Mike Spano up in arms and fuming about the unexpected burden on the Westchester County city.
In Orange County, more than a homeless veterans housed at the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh were given just one day’s notice to pack up and move out to make room for New York City migrants due to arrive there.
The Newburgh hotel also canceled 30 rooms reserved for guests to their planned June wedding.
Orange County officials Friday filed lawsuits against the hotel and Adams to block the migrant moves.
“This is a public safety issue,” County Executive Steven Neuhaus said Friday. “We don’t know if anyone has been vetted, we have no idea where they are from.
“We cannot trust the mayor,” Neuhaus said of Adams.