NYC High School Students Go Remote Tomorrow As Their School Is Used to House Migrants Overnight

(AP Photo/Beth Harpaz)

There’s a major storm headed for New York City and that means migrants who are currently living in a tent camp on federal land in Brooklyn need to be moved somewhere else for their own safety. Here’s an aerial shot showing Floyd Bennet Field which is now the site of a large tent camp. This local news report is from last Sep. 15. before the camp was set up.

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No one has really been happy about the accommodations at Floyd Bennet Field, including the migrants. When they were first moved to the site back in November, many of them took one look at the tents and got back on the bus.

There was a big storm last month that shook the tents and scared people who were staying there. It seems the city has decided not to take the risk this time. Because of the potential for high winds and/or flooding the migrants are being moved to a safer site overnight. That site is a local high school which will have students go remote to make room for the migrants.

Thousands of migrants will be evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to ride out a potential rainstorm on Tuesday night, officials said.

Approximately 2.000 migrants will be moved from Floyd Bennett Field in Flatbush to James Madison High School on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Office of Emergency Management. Roughly 40 Department of Education buses will used in the evacuation, according to the OEM…

“The health and safety of migrants in our care is always a top priority, which is why we are currently overseeing the relocation of 1,900 guests from the humanitarian emergency response and relief center at Floyd Bennett Field due to an updated forecast with increased wind speeds estimated to be at over 70 MPH tonight,” a City Hall spokesperson said in a statement.

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Some video of the migrants arriving at the school:

Workers bringing in beds and food:

The migrants are expected to be out early tomorrow morning but the whole reason they are doing this emergency move is that it is possible high winds could blow down some of the tents. If that does happen then what are they returning the migrants to in the morning?

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The school’s principal decided classes would go remote tomorrow which, given the lack of time to prepare or plan for this, probably just means a day off for most kids. Some of the locals are not happy about the situation:

“This is f—ed up,” said a local resident who identified himself only as Rob. “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,” he said. “They’re not vetted. A lot of them have criminal records and backgrounds and we don’t even know.”

Moving the migrants seems like a responsible decision given that there are kids staying in those tents, but kicking a bunch of local kids out of school to make room for them is a move that seems designed to make people angry. After all, it’s the taxpayers who are paying for all of this and they have to be inconvenienced as well.

The bottom line here is what Mayor Eric Adams has been saying for months. New York City is out of space to house people. It’s not designed to handled a constant influx like this. But of course neither is Texas or anywhere else for that matter. All of this is an expensive burden on taxpayers and that’s a message that should be brought to the White House daily until something is done to bring the numbers and the level of chaos down to a sustainable level. Instead, we just see the numbers go up every month and the Biden administration seems to have no plan to deal with it.

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