The migrant tent camp being built in the Bronx at Orchard Beach is being scrapped and moved to Randall’s Island. The city moved forward with the camp though officials warned it was in an area prone to flooding. Then three straight days of nonstop rain happened and the warnings proved true. The camp flooded.

Not only does the camp have to pack up and move, its capacity for migrants is being cut in half by the move. Instead of sheltering 1,000 illegal migrants, the new camp will house 500. Mayor Adams tried to put a happy face on the disastrous situation.

“Safety for those seeking asylum remains our top priority,” Adams said. “Following this weekend’s storms, New York City Emergency Management determined that, while we would be able to put in place the necessary ponding mitigation measures, relocating the Orchard Beach humanitarian relief center to Randall’s Island is the most efficient and effective path forward.”

Malarkey. Adams was warned by local elected officials and others that the tent camp in Orchard Beach was a bad idea. Locals questioned the logic of setting up tents in a parking lot to house the migrants as winter approaches. Many were not at all pleased that the migrants would be housed in their neighborhood. There were strong NIMBY vibes and who can blame them? The mayor stubbornly forged ahead and the tents started going up.

Liberal Democrat politicians in NYC don’t want a migrant tent camp in their borough. AOC ripped Mayor Adams for his migrant tent idea. Other politicians are warning of flooding possibilities in the new location, too.

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson was among those voicing concerns that the Bronx site was prone to flooding before construction began. Assembly members in the borough also objected, saying the site was an hour by bus from the nearest grocery store and wouldn’t be habitable in the winter months. As the remnants of Hurricane Ian hit the city over the weekend, South Bronx Mutual Aid reported that the site was swamped after just over half an inch of rain.

Randall’s Island is already home to several homeless shelters and safety net facilities, and while reachable by bus and pedestrian bridge, does not have subway access. Changing the location has not halted criticism of the emergency shelter plan. State Sen. Julia Salazar noted that the new site is also vulnerable to floods. “This sounds like a disaster. Please abandon the refugee camp idea and place people in real housing instead,” she tweeted.

It sounds like Mayor Adams is flying by the seat of his pants and failing miserably. Why would you insist on housing migrants in tents in the winter months in New York? He made a big show of saying that NYC is a sanctuary city and all are welcome. Wouldn’t you assume that there are an ample amount of facilities to house them? The Biden border crisis proves that if you invite them here, they will come. Why do you think so many migrants ask to go to NYC when given a choice of destinations on the migrant buses originating from Texas and Arizona? They hear these things and take the people like Adams seriously. Little did they know they would end up in a flooded tent.

The tents are going up because NYC does not have the shelters to house them, despite Adams’ open invitation for them to come. He claims that the city has “safely and efficiently provided shelter, health care, education and a host of other services” to the 16,000 illegal migrants in the last few months. The tent camp fiasco shows the phoniness of his happy talk.

The mayor said the new site would open in “approximately the same timeframe” as the original location, and his office continues to “build out [its] options and explore additional sites as [it handles] this humanitarian crisis created by human hands.”

The mayor created the humanitarian crisis by his own hands, though. Governors Abbott and Ducey are sending buses of illegal migrants to places that call themselves sanctuary cities. Adams labeled NYC that and so he should be able to handle the flow of migrants now. The Republican governors simply took him at his word. Now Adams is trying to work a deal to house them on a cruise ship. He wasn’t prepared for the migrants at all, he just never expected to be held accountable. Adams, like other liberals, just want to virtue-signal about how open they are to a borderless country and abandoning the rule of law. He has created a disaster of his own making.