Migrants selling joints on Randall’s Island as Adams calls for review of security

Migrants camping outside the increasingly lawless Randall’s Island tent city were spotted selling everything from burgers to blunts on Monday — as Mayor Eric Adams said the city would be reviewing shelter security following a fatal weekend stabbing . The group of asylum seekers who set up camp outside the island’s 2,000 bed site after being booted for timing out on the 60 day residency limit appeared locked in a cat and mouse game with Parks Department officials — who tore down the encampment Sunday only to have it rise up again.

“The problem is that you keep coming back,” a frustrated parks worker told the group of more than a dozen migrants in Spanish Monday morning. “You’re not putting a foot forward to get out of this situation. You keep coming back to the same place where you’re not helping yourself,” he said.

“Yes, you work for your family, to send money to your family. But you come back here doing things you’re not supposed to be doing. This is a public park.” But the plea fell on deaf ears — and not long after, the rogue group set up folding tables against police barrier gates and used small propane burners to cook burgers, which they began selling to fellow migrants, along with coffee, hot chocolate, loose cigarettes and rolled marijuana joints.

The open air peddling was the latest example of out of control conditions at the tent city, where a 24 year old man was chased by a group inside a dining area and knifed to death Saturday. Adams said the city would be setting up metal detectors and security cameras at the sprawling site and others. “We’re doing a complete analysis of the security, beefing up our training, [putting] in place a few mobilization concepts, breaking down our location in a color coded scheme,” he said at a press briefing Monday.

“In addition to the metal detectors, in the police department, and our team, we’re going to utilize visual technology. We’re going to put cameras in many of these sites in locations due to the quick response of a security team that’s there,” he added. The city is already spending as much as $25,000 a day on security at shelters that are housing more than 62,000 migrants in its care, officials said.

The accused Randall’s Island killer, Moises Coronado, 27, was arraigned on murder and gang assault charges in Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday night and ordered held without bail until his next hearing Friday. Coronado and at least two others allegedly chased victim Dafren Canizalez inside the cafeteria tent at around 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, cornered him against a door and stabbed him in the chest, according to the criminal complaint against him. The two got into a beef after Coronado said something to Canizalez’s girlfriend, according to prosecutors and sources. Canizalez tried to flee his knife wielding attackers, who continued to chase him until he collapsed.

“It’s horrific to have someone come here to pursue the American dream and lose their life,” Adams said Monday. The stabbing came hours after a rumble at a migrant intake center in the East Village led to two arrests and a pair of cops getting injured when a man tried to cut into the line of 400 asylum seekers.

Migrants living at the Randall’s Island site told The Post that stealing is rampant at the facility , with residents breaking up into “camps” based on ethnicity, race and their countries of origin. One asylum seeker said everyone at the shelter carries a knife. Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer.