Upstate New York counties are vowing to fight New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to send migrants and asylum seekers north for temporary housing.
On Monday, Orange County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus issued an Execute Order for hotels not to accept asylum seekers.
Neuhaus accused the mayor of reneging on his promise to send only 60 adult male migrant asylum seekers without notifying Orange County officials. He said the county could no longer rely on the representations of New York City officials.
“[T]here is no reason to believe that these migrants or asylum seekers will leave Orange County after New York City ceases to pay for the housing and any services that are presently receiving in New York City, or that many thousands more migrants or asylum seekers will not be transported to Orange County,” Neuhaus said.
The County Executive predicted that a surge of migrants into the county will overwhelm city resources and, as such, there is “there is no legal basis to provide adequate services to these migrants or asylum seekers.”
Neuhaus ordered that all “hotels, motels and/or facilities allowing short-term rentals do not accept said migrants and/or asylum seekers for housing within Orange County.”
At a news conference with U.S. Rep Michael Lawler and other officials, Rockland County Executive Ed Day said the county was “not equipped to humanely assist these individuals, which eventually we’re going to have to do.”
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