What they're saying is that if staffed remittance locations have been locations for criminals to hang out and rob people, bitcoin ATMs surely will have the same issue.
Ah. Well as others have pointed out, its likely that people will need to go to atms less often (since they can send directly with their app) and that amounts handled at atms would be substantially lower (because when using the lightning network, there aren't incentives to send one large payment vs a number of small payments). So if that's the worry, bitcoin would probably improve that situation as well.