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.
Immigration and immigrants are the backbone of America and always have been. The way Republicans use them as political pawns is sick, xenophobic, and racist.
Immigration improves economies and jobs and the immigrant’s own lives. When handled in the right way (as New York is attempting to do) they can be a huge net positive on their communities and America at large.
Growing pains are inevitable. But if Republicans are too bigoted or stupid to take advantage of willing workers, Democrats entirely should.
New York City has a population of 8.8 million and from March 2020 to June 2021 they had an estimated 130k leave the city. 110k migrants isn’t nothing, but it’s not a city destroying burden and, if anything, might help reverse COVID-related losses. Mayor Cop Liar is playing to his centrist roots and scapegoating immigrants for pre-existing problems.
Running the math, 1 out of every 45 students in the NYC school system is a migrant child. So if we get rid of them all, class sizes will fall from 45 students per teacher to 44 students per teacher.
Ok? Smaller class sizer are good, but 1 student per teacher is not a big deal. But the us in general should be doubling the number of teachers.
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.
