Staff Reports
Title 42’s expiration has led to a deluge of illegal aliens surging towards the United States-Mexico border. Unfortunately, this outpour is leaking into Democrat-led “sanctuary cities,” including the infested cesspool of New York City. The Big Apple had initially intended to house illegal aliens seeking asylum in twenty public schools, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Tuesday. However, Adams stressed that this was not where City Hall wished to take this kind of drastic step, declaring that “we are out of space,” and “nothing is off the table as we work to fill our moral mandate.”
Illegal Aliens Moved Out of NYC Elementary Schools After Parent-Led Protests https://t.co/0SRyt2bmRW
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 18, 2023
Adams’ office had identified at least seven schools in Brooklyn, covering pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, to house migrant children: P.S. 188 in Coney Island; P.S. 172 in Sunset Park; P.S. 189, and P.S. 132 in Crown Heights; P.S. 17, M.S. 577, and P.S. 18, in Williamsburg. However, the city has reportedly backed off from the idea after consecutive parent-led protests. A source within the city government told the New York Daily News that the city government is “moving away from the school sites for now, but reserve the right to use them again if they can’t handle the influx.”
This is the letter parents from P.S. 188 received at drop off this morning. It provides an update on the use of their gym to house asylum seekers. Says the space is not needed at this time but will remain ready with supplies to provide emergency short term respite if needed @NY1 pic.twitter.com/3CuXm2vjnw
— Alyssa Paolicelli (@APaolicelli17) May 18, 2023
Adams says migrants housed in NYC school gyms is only possibility –as photos show cots set up https://t.co/Z11iVt6xxQ pic.twitter.com/JgowpjYqgv
— New York Post (@nypost) May 16, 2023
Proud to represent the beautiful & compassionate Coney Island community that simply wants to have a say in the future of their own neighborhood. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/EOOSJmXlt4
— Council Member Ari Kagan (@CMAriKagan47) May 17, 2023
There’s a lot of parents talking about how afraid they are, some have pulled their kids out of school. There are a few moms from the local Communtiy Education Council who disagree with the protest but they get heckled by the crowd. pic.twitter.com/l1tSXBJ875
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) May 16, 2023
WATCH: Rosie — a concerned grandmother who has pulled her grandchild from school — explains how she, like others, are protesting New York City housing illegal aliens in the school gym:
“Our main concern is the safety of our children…We’re scared.” pic.twitter.com/gZgdjqu03A
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) May 17, 2023
It is unsurprising that parents would be concerned about having unvetted, full-grown men, who are not authorized to be in America, hailing from who knows where on school grounds indefinitely. Parents raising alarm argued that their presence would disrupt learning and halt student programming. For example, over at M.S. 577 and P.S. 17, whose shared gym site was being prepared to host a potential horde of single adult males, outdoor after-school activities would have been axed, given that the gymnasium itself backs onto the playground.
Parents argued that the aliens should be bunking with the elected officials who called to put them near grade-school children. “Put them in their backyards because you’ve dumped on us long enough,” one parent said to ABC7 News. Given the backlash from the community, caregivers, fearful of what their children may be subjected to, had refused to drop off their children at school. “I’m not sending my kids to school because at the end of the day there could be pedophiles coming in. There could be people trying to kidnap our kids. They could have weapons. They could have drugs. They could have anything,” CBS2 quoted a parent saying.
Since Title 42 expired, 65,000 asylum seekers, including 4,200 in the past week alone, have swarmed into New York City. City officials expect an additional fifteen busloads of illegal aliens to arrive in the coming weekend. Illegal immigrants overcrowd buses that are sent to Adams’ jurisdiction, courtesy of the Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, even as his state contends with an influx of illegal aliens daily.
In conclusion, Mayor Adams should consider the safety of school-going children and prioritizing city residents instead of accommodating aliens who should not even be here in the first place. Municipal and state authorities should intervene to prevent such incidents from recurring. The aliens should be deported, and America’s borders made secure to prevent such past occurrences from repeating themselves.
