Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security.
The surge has forced city officials to open more than 200 emergency sites to house migrants, after its traditional shelters became overwhelmed. And schools are feeling the strain as well.
I assume that was their point? Migrants aren’t actually what’s pushing schools to their limit.
Yes, that was my point. People complaining about how the NYC school system is overstuffed with kids and think “Oh, it must be all these migrants!” when in fact that will do almost nothing to fix the problem.
Sort of like how we have a federal deficit of $221 billion, and think cutting federal funding for NPR will help balance it. (NPR gets ~$2 million from the government)
I can’t actually tell which direction they meant it in… But people sure did take what they said the worst way possible.