Nearly 1,900 migrants currently being housed in a New York City tent shelter will be relocated to James Madison High School, due to concerns regarding incoming inclement weather, according to the office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
This decision, which Mayor Adams said is rooted in an “overabundance of caution,” has drawn criticism from residents and politicians who say the school facility is not an appropriate makeshift housing solution for the migrants. Inna Vernikov, a Republican councilwoman, called the decision to house the migrants in James Madison High School “unacceptable.”
“Our public schools are meant to be places of learning and growth for our children, and were never intended to be shelters or facilities for emergency housing,” Vernikov said in a statement.
New York City has been struggling with a surge of roughly 160,000 migrants since mid-2022, stretching the city’s resources and seriously hampering the city’s ability to provide vital services to its actual citizens. Mayor Adams has called upon federal agencies for increased support in areas such as funding and processing work permits. He’s also issued restrictions on when and where busses can drop off migrants, and has launched a $700 million lawsuit against the transportation companies operating migrant busses.
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