Former employee reveals shocking conditions in NYC migrant hotel: 'Free for all'

A former employee is blowing the whistle on conditions and activity inside a trendy Manhattan tourist hotel now housing migrants.

Carlos Arellano, the former employee, said the Row NYC Hotel is a "free for all" as drugs, sex and violence engulf the hotel, which is now one of the city's largest housing areas for migrants.

On "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday, Arellano detailed a heartbreaking discovery where he claimed to have found a ten-year-old girl drunk in her hotel room with her parents nowhere to be found. He added that it, sadly, was not a one-off incident.

"Every day, we find about ten kids alone in their hotel rooms, either drinking or doing drugs. Weapons will be in the room. But we're not allowed to go in there. We're not allowed to take anything from them. It's basically a free-for-all," Arellano said.

The Row is located in the city's theater district and was a popular tourist hotel. In light of the migrant crisis, the hotel is no longer open to guests and has become a dedicated migrant hotel for individuals who have completed the trek from the southern border to New York City.

While he is no longer working at the Row, Arellano shared that he and other workers had experienced trashed rooms, violence in the street and multiple staff incident reports during his time there.

"Just a lot of people who are very there, they don't appreciate what they have. And they come here with the mindset of the way they live back at their home country, and they think there's no rules or no laws to be followed here," he said.

Incidents involving children are also common occurrences like the young girl found intoxicated in a hotel room, Arellano claims. He said hotel staff has little they can do to help much less to identify the children or their parents.... (Read more)

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