City officials in New York City are evacuating around 2,000 illegal immigrants from a tent shelter set up on an airfield due to high winds, and moving them to a high school gym.
The illegal immigrants are being transported from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to James Madison High School on Tuesday as the city braces for a storm that could produce torrential rain and 70-mph winds, the New York Post reported. Students were dismissed early on Tuesday as city officials were preparing the school for the migrants, and classes will be remote on Wednesday, according to NYC Republican Councilwoman Inna Vernikov.
“They told us we had to get everything out by 5 [p.m.],” gym teacher Robyn Levy told the Post. “They sent us the email at 6 in the morning. I don’t know when we’ll be able to [be] back.”
“What I want to know is why here?” Levy asked. “Why not send them somewhere where…
