A New York hotel taking in migrants reportedly is kicking 30-room reservation wedding parties to the curb.
"We felt discarded, disappointed, and angry that they just tossed us aside to make an extra dollar for the hotel," bride to be Deanna Mifsud, 35, told the New York Post of the The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York. "It's just not right."
The Florida couple was welcoming 160 guests from around the country for the upstate wedding in June.
"We signed a contract," husband to be Gary Moretti, 37, told the Post. "We had a legal contract to have those rooms. We just wanted everybody to be safe and have a good time."
The newlyweds, 10 bridesmaids, five groomsmen, and guests from California, Florida, Arizona, Minnesota, Connecticut, New Jersey, Long Island, and Westchester had all planned to stay at the hotel before they were canceled without notice.
"We were on hold for 45-plus minutes and were ultimately told, We can't do anything for you, bye bye, and we were hung up on," Mifsud told the Post, learning of the cancellation only after reading media reports the hotel would be taking in migrants.
Migrant hotels, needed to take on New York City Mayor Eric Adams' sanctuary city policy, might be getting as much as $190 per night of taxpayer funds to house Adams' migrants, according to the report.
"It's complete chaos," Misfud told the Post. "We do not feel like they are housing the migrants out of the kindness of their heart. It's just for the money. That's how we feel."
The Moretti-Misfud wedding is not the only one kicked to the curb for migrants. A Queens couple told CBS they had 37 rooms canceled at the Crossroads Hotel for their May 20 wedding.
"What we feel right now is, we feel very cast aside," groom Sean Plunkett told CBS.
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