RETURNING CONTEXT TO THE FOREFRONT OF NEWS
(RE)METTRE LE CONTEXTE AU PREMIER PLAN DES NOUVELLES
Ce poste de Fox News mentionne seulement qu’il y a eu un événement dangereux sans trop de contexte. Il citant un représentant du gouvernement et montre un homme très blessé. Cependant, il ne dit pas à son public quel est le danger en question. Donc, nous donnons le contexte nécessaire pour comprendre ce qui se passe. L’article de Fox connecte l’augmentation des crimes des squatters avec celle des migrants illégaux dans la ville de new york. Ces deux statistiques pourraient être corrélées, mais il n'y a aucune preuve d'un lien de cause à effet. Cette affirmation cible les migrants et rejette la responsabilité sur un groupe d'individus pour un fait dont il n'est pas prouvé qu'il soit lié à eux. Dans ce “fact-check”, nous donnons plus d'informations sur les droits des squatters pour mieux comprendre la vérité.
Concerns About FOX News' Reporting:
Fox News is linking increased squatter crimes to increased number of illegal migrants in New York City. Their claim is based entirely off correlation of these two statistics, and they do not provide any direct evidence of causation. The danger of hypothesizing that increased migration causes squatter crime without evidence is that it can make migrants a scapegoat for people justifiably upset about squatter crime.
"Squatting issues could flare even further in New York as the state has seen a flood of illegal migrants in New York City as the migrant crisis continues spiraling under the Biden administration.
At least 7.2 million illegal migrants have entered the U.S. since Biden took office in 2021, which is more than the population of 36 individual states.
More than 175,000 migrants have arrived in New York City over the last two years, city officials said in February". (FOX NEWS)
The Counter-Argument to the 'Migrant Crime Wave' in New York City
"Quantifying crimes committed by migrants is nearly impossible, because the police are not allowed to ask about a suspect’s immigration status, said Kenneth Corey, a former chief of the department who retired in 2022. But police data indicate that there has been no surge in crime since April 2022, when Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas started sending buses of migrants to New York to protest the federal government’s border policy.
More than 170,000 migrants have arrived in the city since then, and it is difficult to know what crime statistics would show had they not come. But as the migrant numbers have increased, the overall crime rate has stayed flat. And, in fact, many major categories of crime — including rape, murder and shootings — have decreased, according to an analysis of the New York Police Department’s month-by-month statistics since April 2022". (Maria Cramer, Maria Sánchez Díez, and Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner for the New York Times)
What is the Situation?
Section 711 of Article 7 of New York Law: "Grounds where landlord-tenant relationship exists. A tenant shall include an occupant of one or more rooms in a rooming house or a resident, not including a transient occupant, of one or more rooms in a hotel who has been in possession for thirty consecutive days or longer. No tenant or lawful occupant of a dwelling or housing accommodation shall be removed from possession except in a special proceeding"
How does Senator Mario Mattera propose to change the portion of the law pertaining to 'Squatters Rights'?
A Four Part Plan:
"This legislation would exclude squatters and trespassers from the definition of "occupant," thereby denying the special protections of the statute to those persons".
"This legislation would enact an expedient method whereby a property owner, by the mere submission of a sworn complaint to a police officer attesting to certain facts, can immediately cause a squatter or other unauthorized person to be evicted from residential real property by a police officer without court intervention".
"Section 853 of the real property actions and proceedings law provides for an action for unlawful entry or detainer. This legislation would exclude from the definition of "person" squatters and trespassers.".
"Clarifies that criminal trespass in the third degree encompasses squatting"
What is the status of the law?
What is the Democrats' position to proposed Squatter Laws?
Who is the victim in the photo?
Tom Buckleman is a plumber in New York City. He responded to a plumbing job and was brutally beaten with a baseball bat by the squatter who was occupying the space. The injuries he sustained from the attack continue to affect his mobility today. You can hear more about what happened to Tom Buckleman through Senator Mattera's recent press conference.