Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday criticized President Biden and the city of New York for their decision to remove students from a Brooklyn school in place of about 2,000 illegal immigrants, saying the action would make the American people's lives worse. He said this indicates that he will finally kick them out.
DeSantis on Wednesday criticized the city's decision to move migrants from a tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field to James Madison High School while students had to switch to remote learning.
“That's Joe Biden's America in a nutshell…shameful,” DeSantis said in a video posted to his X account. In the video, DeSantis was answering questions from reporters about the state of New York City schools.
On January 9, 2024, undocumented immigrants evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field arrive at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized President Biden and the city for transferring nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants to Brooklyn schools. Force students to switch to distance learning. (Gardiner Anderson, NY Daily News, via Getty Images)
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams' office announced that about 1,900 migrants were being removed from tent shelters for safety reasons due to expected storms and high winds. Adams told reporters this was done out of “excessive caution,” according to the New York Daily News, while Adams told X that illegal immigrants will be kicked out of school on Wednesday. I wrote that it would be.
But DeSantis, who appeared at a Fox News town hall on Tuesday ahead of the Iowa caucuses, criticized the move.
“I think that's a shame, think about it…you're a parent in Brooklyn…there's a lot of single moms who are probably the breadwinners, so they have to work a day job, your child. The kids are supposed to go to school, and someone says to you, “Sorry, the kids have to stay home.''
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, condemns New York City's decision to move migrants from a tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field to James Madison High School while students had to switch to remote learning. did. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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“Why? Was there a really significant storm or emergency…why should they stay home?” DeSantis asked. “They have to stay home because the city government is requisitioning schools to house illegal immigrants.”
“You're the last one talking about getting Americans out, but you're taking away in-person education from these kids so that you can house people who have no right to be here in the first place.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams toured James Madison High School, where about 2,000 illegal immigrants were held while the students were sent home. (Benny Polatosek/Mayor's Photography Office)
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DeSantis went on to say that New Yorkers' views on immigration are changing.
“When I'm president, we're building a huge consensus in this country on this immigration issue, because in some parts of New York City, you typically have very liberal voters; Because almost all of them are saying, “We can do this.'' We can't let this continue, we can't have schools being taken over, hospitals being taken over, people coming in who we don't even know who they are,'' DeSantis said. Ta.
“So this is probably Biden's biggest failure, simply because Biden has more control over this. He's causing this, he could have stopped this, and he's choosing not to.”
