The Biden administration is slashing through environmental protection rules and worries about policing and the health of illegal immigrants themselves as it rushes to erect a migrant camp on a national park site in New York City, local lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday.
The National Park Service signed an agreement to lease Floyd Bennett Field, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area in Brooklyn, to hold a tent city housing up to 7,500 adult men, giving New York a place to stash at least some of the cataclysmic flow of migrants cresting over the city.
Republicans on the committee said they were shocked that the Biden administration, which usually professes deep fealty to NEPA when it comes to stymying new energy projects, in this case is ignoring the bedrock environmental law to speed the migrant camp. The airfield was first used for commercial traffic and then as a naval air station, and now is part of the park site, serving as a treasured green space and athletic complex for Brooklyn.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, Colorado Republican, said when Congress created Gateway National Recreation Area, it described the goal as bringing a national park experience to the New York metropolitan area.
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