A high school in New York City was closed to students Tuesday to make room for 2,000 illegal migrants who had been sheltered nearby in a Brooklyn tent city.
With a winter storm bringing high winds approaching, officials became worried that the tents at Floyd Bennett Field might not stand up in 70-mph winds and heavy rain. So, they decided to evacuate the migrants and move them to the second-floor gym at James Madison High School five miles away. This required the students to stay away, ostensibly attending classes online.
A few hours later, the storm having passed, the migrants were moved back to the tents and today the students are back in the classroom.
Parents were understandably upset that their children appeared to matter less to the city than the illegal migrants. One mother told the NY Post: “The writing was on the wall the minute the city started being inundated with migrants. It’s disgusting. It should not be put on us taxpayers.” Her teenage daughter added:
I do believe they are putting the life of people who are here illegally and not documented over my life. I am a 15-year-old girl at the school who wants to get her education and better her life, and she can’t come to school today because the day was interrupted by people who aren’t supposed to be here.
Another resident expressed the resentment toward the displacement local citizens that is growing among locals:
This is f—ed up. It’s a litmus test. They are using a storm, a legitimate situation, where they are testing this out. I guarantee you they’ll be here for the entire summer. There’s 1,900 people getting thrown into my neighborhood, half a block from where I live and we don’t know who they are. They’re not vetted. A lot of them have criminal records and backgrounds and we don’t even know.
How much longer will Americans tolerate the open-borders policy of the Biden administration? We’ll have to wait and see.
For more, see the NY Post.