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The Egg Harbor Township-based airport, located 10 miles outside Atlantic City, was listed by the US Department of Homeland Security in a letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams as temporary housing for some of the 60,000 migrants who recently arrived in the city, Bloomberg reported.
Egg Harbor Township Mayor Laura Pfrommer strongly opposed the plan, saying in part: “An airbase and technical center where classified work is performed every day is not an area unvetted immigrants should be housed. We strongly urge the federal government to actually deal with the situation at the border and not shift the responsibility to communities.”
U.S. Congressman Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, agreed, calling the plan "absolutely unconscionable."
And Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was "pissed" upon reading the report. “Municipalities near and far rely on ‘Greyhound Therapy’ when it comes to Atlantic City. They send their less fortunate with a one-way ticket to Atlantic City and tell them to figure it out," the mayor told the news outlet.
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