Less than a day after cops and Sanitation workers cleared out a makeshift migrant tent city under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, even more, returned to live there.

About 15 migrants were back to al fresco living Saturday, claiming it was safer than the Bronx shelter where about a dozen tent city denizens were taken the day before.

“They took us up to the Bronx to a place that was way worse than [Hall Street] shelter,” said a 36-year-old Peruvian migrant, referring to another migrant shelter at nearby 47 Hall Street where some were recently booted for brawling. “I have friends staying there, and they said it was dangerous, too — people with guns, smoking, drinking.”

After being tossed from the Hall Street shelter they and others set up three tents, a huge tarp, and multiple mattresses crammed between rows of parked vehicles under the BQE.

“We don’t want to live [in the encampment], but it’s better than the shelters,” added the male migrant, who arrived in the United States three months ago, and was among those who quickly returned Friday night.

Dozens of migrants have also taken to drinking and smoking in the nearby children’s playground and milling about in the surrounding streets, according to Clinton Hill residents.

The Peruvian migrant said he regrets coming to the US.

“I had a good house back in my country,” he claimed. “This is terrible – I never thought I would live someplace like this.”

The tent city was briefly cleared Friday a day after The Post reported it had sparked fears of a “new normal” in the wake of the city’s new 60-day shelter stay limit for single adult migrants.

More than 54,800 asylum seekers are currently staying at one of the city’s 188 emergency shelter sites set up to cater to the surge in migrants, according to City Hall’s latest figures.