Republican New York Councilwoman Joann Ariola said that in order to keep the city's Floyd Bennett Field immigrant shelter operational, officials would be pouring taxpayer funds into "a money pit."

“It's $22 million per year for the rent,” Ariola said on FOX 5 New York. “That doesn't take into consideration the personnel that's there, the food that's being provided, and also the fact that they have to do improvements to Floyd Bennett field.”

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“Like redo the runways, redo the visitor center, the broken down hangar. This is a taxpayer money pit,” Ariola added.

Ariola joined fellow officials earlier this year in filing a lawsuit to block the mayor from using Floyd Bennett Field as a shelter, citing its remote location and lack of infrastructure, among other things.

The Republican councilwoman said that among the 23 families who were bused to the site on Sunday, only 13 stayed. She added that those who were offered shelter at the former airfield were not first arrivals, despite elected officials saying that is who was going to arrive.

“They already had children enrolled in school since September,” Ariola said, noting that the nearest train station to which they can ride a bus is miles away.

The families were bused over an hour from the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to the 2,000-person Brooklyn facility. When they arrived, the living situation was less than ideal, with bathrooms located outside as winter approaches.

“When they arrived at such a remote area as Floyd Bennett Field, they were shocked to see the condition,” Ariola said. “They were shocked to see that it was semi-congregate living, that it was no longer a hotel room, that there was not transportation provided for their child to get back and forth to school, and they got right back on the bus, and they turned around.”

Another housing option to deal with the migrant crisis is the Park Slope Armory, according to Ariola. In August, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom said New York City was reviewing 3,000 locations.

“When I made that suggestion, I was told that there are a couple of preschool programs there, and they didn't want to disrupt those preschool programs,” Ariola said. “Certainly, it would be a lot more fiscally beneficial to move two or three programs than to have to build an entire — it looks like an army base.”

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Mayor Eric Adams visited the site Sunday night, saying they would ensure the children’s safety and make sure they have accommodations for them to study.

“This is not, you know, the best conditions, but we're managing a crisis, and we can't say it any better: we need help,” Adams said on-site in a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.