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The Roosevelt Hotel’s reputation as a violent, gang-ridden migrant shelter is all over TikTok, fed-up residents told The Post Thursday, as they worried about keeping their own kids out of trouble.The converted Midtown hotel, the city’s intake center for arriving migrants, has become a recruiting center for the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, even spawning a baby-faced offshoot of teen gangbangers, The Post recently reported.“The reputation of this hotel is all over TikTok,” griped 35-year-old Roosevelt Hotel resident Fernanda Rosa, an Ecuadorean migrant and mother of two.“We all know what the hotel is known for.”Rosa said she has warned her daughters: “to not involve themselves in problems that are not theirs.”Another mom, who asked not to be identified, said her daughter clued her in on the hotel’s tainted reputation on the social media app.“She showed me videos on TikTok,” the woman said.
“The one where they say New York is protecting criminal migrants.TikTok is full of stories about some of the kids in this hotel.
Why can’t they be arrested or sent back?… This is only going to get worse.”Calling themselves “Diablos de la 42,” Spanish for devils of 42nd Street, the marauding migrant teens terrorized Times Square and other parts of the city — holding well-meaning asylum seekers hostage.“It’s chaos without structure,” migrant mom Ufari Tama, 53, told The Post on Thursday.“The other boys in the hotel are out all night.
They steal and fight and have no one telling them when to come home.”She said she tries to keep a tight leash on her 15-year-old son amid the madness.“He only goes to school and the gym,” said the Ecuadorian migrant. “The laws here are different and he knows that.
But I admit I’m confused by the laws here because they’re too lenient if violent people are allowed back into the hotel.”Police said Tren de Aragua began infiltrating the US by hiding among the hordes of migrants streaming...