Orange County officials are the latest to declare a state of emergency to try to thwart New York City’s plan to dump migrants there — with the county’s top pol blasting the asylum-seeker situation as “the Wild West.’’
The emergency declaration was issued by County Executive Steve Neuhaus late Monday in response to city Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to start housing scores of migrants at motels in both Rockland and Orange counties to shift the burden away from the Big Apple.
“This seems like the Wild West — and it’s frustrating,” the Republican exec said in a video posted to his Facebook page on Tuesday.
Under Orange County’s state of emergency, hotels, motels and other short-term rentals are prohibited from accepting any asylum seekers who could potentially be bused to the region.
The drastic move comes just days after neighboring Rockland County Executive Ed Day, also a Republican, issued a similar declaration — and threatened to grab Adams “by the throat” if he tried to offload the city’s growing migrant problem onto his tight-knight community.
Neuhaus said the Democratic mayor first informed him Friday of the city’s plan to house 60 migrants at the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh for a 30-day stretch.
The exec insisted he only opted for the state-of-emergency action after learning Monday that a number of local hotels had already been approached by the city to “take hundreds more” migrants.
He also claimed that fliers were being distributed to asylum seekers promising they could stay in the upstate motels for four months.
Neuhaus pointed the finger at the Democratic Biden administration for the overall current migrant mess, saying someone needs to come up with a clear-cut plan to deal with the influx of asylum seekers flowing into the US.
“The situation we’re seeing in this country … there’s got to be a better way. The federal government has failed us. Someone has to make a decision,” he said.
The exec also ripped Adams for declaring the Big Apple a “sanctuary city” last year when GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started moving thousands of migrants away from his border state — only for Hizzoner to then ask upstate counties to “bear the brunt.” “Sanctuary cities” are designed to protect undocumented migrants from what local governments consider unfair federal prosecution and deportation.
“This is a self-induced problem that [‘sanctuary cities’] created partially in conjunction to the federal government not having a concrete plan for immigration,” Neuhaus said.
“Really, it comes from the federal government [and] New York City for saying, ‘We can take them’ and then realizing they couldn’t.
“It seems this issue is going to get worse in the next couple days, couple of weeks as the federal rules start expiring,” Neuhaus said, referring to the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration restriction that expires Thursday.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/orange-county-also-declares-state-of-emergency-over-nyc-migrant-plan/
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