FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—School administrators in New York City agreed to house illegal aliens at James Madison High School in Brooklyn without including parents in the discussion, documents obtained by The Oversight Project show. 

Emails obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through New York state’s Freedom of Information Law show that officials from the city’s Education Department met Jan. 9 with the high school’s principal to discuss “FBF Evacuation Planning” at the high school.

FBF refers to Floyd Bennett Field, a local airstrip where the city has housed almost 2,000 illegal immigrants in a tent community. Impending inclement weather with “high winds” at the time prompted local officials to seek other accommodations.

In a private email to staff sent at 11:17 a.m. Jan. 9, less than two hours before the scheduled meeting, Madison Principal Jodie Cohen announced that the Brooklyn high school “is the secondary sight [site] to support the residents at Floyd Bennett Field in case it is needed.”

Cohen claimed that, if the illegal aliens were housed in the high school, they would be gone by morning so that students’ lessons would be unimpeded.

“What does this mean to our daily instruction—NOTHING!” she wrote in the email to faculty and other staff. “The plan is for them to come here after the school day ends and leave before the school day begins.”