Migrants should be sent to National Mall in DC — not Staten Island’s Fort Wadsworth: borough prez

President Biden and Congress should send the influx of migrants to the National Mall in Washington, DC, and not the former Fort Wadsworth military base on Staten Island, Borough President Vito Fossella said Tuesday.

“Immigration is a federal responsibility … Staten Island didn’t cause this problem. Why is Staten Island being asked to solve the migrant crisis,” the former Republican congressman quipped. 

Fossella is asking Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI/Brooklyn) and the New York congressional delegation to introduce legislation requiring migrants to be sheltered on the National Mall that runs from the US Capitol building to the Lincoln Monument before burdening the Big Apple, where 100,000 migrants have sought assistance and shelter over the past year.

As first reported by The Post last week — City Hall and officials from the Department of Homeland Security are considering leasing a portion of Fort Wadsworth’s 226 acres, now run by the Nationaal Park Service, to shelter the ongoing surge of migrants.

“Fort Wadsworth is a jewel, and this [shelter idea] reeks of misplaced priorities,” the borough president said.

He said the lenient border policy combined with New York’s generous shelter law has asylum seekers stampeding to the Big Apple.

“You show up and get a free place to live,” Fossella said. “This problem has to be solved on the border or it’s going to get worse.”

A spokesperson for Mayor Adams said Tuesday that Fort Wadsworth is under consideration for a migrant encampment, but the Biden Administration has not approved the plan.

“There are no good options,” the City Hall rep said.

Congresswoman Malliotakis said she’d push for a law barring migrants from being sheltered at any park or military site

“Whether it is Fort Wadsworth or the National Mall, Illegal immigrants should not be here, period. I’m currently drafting legislation to prohibit national parks and current and former military installations from being used but what we really need is for Chuck Schumer and the Senate to pass the border security act the House passed in May or to elect a new president who will undo President Biden’s executive orders,” she said.