Orange County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus and Rockland County Executive Ed Day are among the elected officials who have been vehemently opposing plans by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to bus immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. from the city to locations in the Hudson Valley. Neuhaus issued an executive order to block hotels […]
Two New York counties have declared states of emergency in a bid to halt New York City’s attempt to move asylum-seekers to vacant hotels in their communities.
A plan by New York City officials to send some migrants seeking asylum to hotels in northern suburbs was met with fierce resistance by local leaders, leading to a delay in an initial transfer that had been touted for Wednesday even as the city insisted its plans hadn t changed.