Well, what do you expect when you throw your borders open to the world?
/NYC schools struggle to cope with an influx of 5,500 illegal alien children
2.7 million illegals came in just this year (including the estimated 700,000 “got aways”) , adding to the 1.5 million that entered during Biden’s inaugural year. They’re spreading out across the country, naturally, and it’s not just the few thousand bused out of Texas and Florida by the governors that are ending up in New York City: Biden’s flying them in by the thousands, and thousands more are making it there on their own. The results were entirely predictable, and it’s exactly what 81 million Americans (are said to have) voted for.
It’s easy to scream “racist” and “America belongs to the world” when it’s the Orange Man who has locked the borders, but merely opening the gates to the millions of new residents is only the beginning: someone has to house, clothe, feed, and educate them, and provide them with medical care. If New Yorkers and other blue state cities volunteered for that duty, I say, let them.
A Manhattan public school with just one certified bilingual teacher is reeling under the weight of a sudden influx of migrant students who don’t speak any English, The Post has learned.
“We’re overwhelmed,” one frustrated teacher at PS 33 Chelsea Prep said Tuesday.
“We’ve all got migrant students in our classrooms. The teachers don’t speak Spanish. There’s no resources helping us out right now — it’s a very challenging situation.”
One outraged mom said migrant kids — easily identified by lime green ID tags that hang from their necks — have swelled the size of her daughter’s class from 15 to 20 kids.
“She’s in the third grade. Her teacher is giving her lower-level work due to the immigrants. They’re making the curriculum easier,” said Maria, a 29-year-old fashion designer.
“The work is too easy for my daughter. There’s first-grade, second-grade and third-grade levels in her class. It’s ridiculous.”
The burden has some furious parents preparing to pull their kids out and send them elsewhere.
Maria said she’s “been looking at a private school on 42nd Street” where she’s planning to enroll the girl.
Another parent, Cooper, a 45-year-old chef, said he’s also “trying to change schools” for his 7-year-old son, who’s in second grade.
The alarming situation offers an example of how the flood of migrants to the Big Apple — now nearly 19,000 strong, with no sign of stopping — is straining the city’s ability to provide them with housing, education and social services.
On Friday, Mayor Eric Adams said that 5,500 migrant kids have been enrolled in the city’s public schools, revealing the startling number as he declared a state of emergency over the migrant crisis.
Not to worry, though, everything’s under control:
Schools Chancellor David Banks tried to put a positive spin on the situation citywide during a morning TV appearance on PIX11, saying, “I feel great about where we are.”
Fine.