Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that the government would start forcing Americans to house migrants in their homes after a Brooklyn school was closed for a day.
‘This is what happens when you run out of hotel rooms. Soon, cities will run out of schools to vacate.,’ the Tesla CEO wrote on X, which he owns. ‘Then they will come for your homes.’
Musk’s post included a video showing migrant buses pulling up to the school on Tuesday evening after officials moved students to remote learning on Wednesday in order to provide shelter for the asylum seekers currently housed at the tent shelter at the Bennet Airfield.
There is no proof that any local government in the country has moved to force people to house migrants in residential homes or has plans to do so.
The right-wing account Libs of TikTok replied to Musk’s post, claiming this is ‘already happening’ in Massachusetts — to which Musk replied ‘wow.’
Shocking footage has shown hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping on the floor of a Brooklyn school assembly hall, after kids were kicked out of classes so 2,000 migrants would move in
However, it is not true that the Massachusetts’s government is housing migrants in people’s homes. The claim by Libs of TikTok comes from comments by governor Maura Healey in August in which she asked volunteers to consider taking migrants in if they had extra space in their homes.
Parents of students at James Madison high were enraged over the cancellation of in-person learning on Wednesday to allow the migrants to sleep in the school on Tuesday night as a storm passed through the area.
Many of the parents told DailyMail.com they would not send their children to school on Thursday because they are worried about how hygienic the situation is and whether the migrants had been medically screened.
Officials said high winds could damage the tents set up at Bennet Airfield and endanger the migrants, who put in the school’s auditorium and cafeteria’s but taken back to the tent shelter as early as 4am Wednesday.
New York City continues to buckle under the massive influx of asylum seekers, with over 150,000 new migrants who have made their way to the Big Apple after crossing the US-Mexico border.
Many have chosen New York as their destination because the city has a Right to Shelter law mandating that anyone who asks for shelter receive it. The law was initially meant to help the city’s homelessness crisis but has now caused massive issues for mayor Eric Adams, who has warned the situation could destroy New York.
Adams has been forced to turn hotels and vacant spaces into shelters as migrants continue arriving, with an expected cost of $12billion to the city across three years.
He proudly visited the school on Tuesday and -posted photos on X of the migrants in the school gym.
Locals in Brooklyn rallied together outside James Madison High School on Wednesday
The decision outraged many New Yorkers who say it is yet more proof of Adams prioritizing the thousands of migrants who have descended on the city over tax-paying residents and their families.
Among those who voiced criticism is New York State Assemblyman Mike Reilly of Staten Island who said Adams had taken the issue ‘beyond the threshold’ of common sense.
‘For more than a year, I and common sense colleagues from around New York City have been outspoken about the placement of temporary migrant shelters in our community and our public schools.
Republican Councilwoman Inna Vernikov posted video of the migrants entering James Madison High School without having to scan their faces the way students typically do.
‘A lot of law enforcement and other agency resources have been poured into this situation tonight. Also, these children are being moved from place to place and will be forced to wake up at 4:30am to leave the school to go elsewhere. Unacceptable situation for all!’
Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a frequent critic of Adams’ handling of the migrant crisis, said she predicted problems with the Floyd Bennett shelter from the start.
Adams surveyed the gymnasium where the migrants slept on the floor. They were moved back to the shelter at 4.30am
More than 120,000 migrants have arrived in the city in the last 18 months, with over 60,000 of them still staying in the city’s shelters
‘I warned the administration that something like this would happen from day one and they refused to listen,’ she said.
‘Floyd Bennett Field is entirely unsuitable for a tent complex, and how we are wasting tax-payer dollars to evacuate nearly 2,000 people when they should have been placed somewhere like the Park Slope Armory.’
The evacuation at Floyd Bennett Field comes as migrant families were moved out of a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday as part of Adams’ plan to ease the pressure on New York City’s strained shelter system by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays.
The roughly 40 families that left Row NYC, in the heart of the city´s Theater District, are the first of scores of families that are expected to leave city shelters in the coming weeks.
Some of those leaving on Tuesday immediately reapplied for beds, while others said they had managed to find more permanent accommodations outside of the system.
Adams, a Democrat, imposed the limit in October for homeless migrant families, saying the move was necessary to relieve a shelter system overwhelmed by asylum-seekers crossing the southern U.S. border.