NYC Mayor Eric Adams is still mulling what to do with those 60,000+ “hot potato” migrants his sanctuary city has “welcomed” over the past several months.
On Friday, the city, having used up all its local shelter space, began shipping hundreds of migrants about 30 miles to Rockland County, where it had leased hotel rooms in a couple of towns.
Incensed by the mayor’s summary dumping of the illegals on the region with little warning, Rockland County Executive Ed Day declared a state of emergency, intended to stop the transfers and to prevent county “hotels and motels from housing migrants without a license and [requiring] municipalities that wish to house migrants or asylum seekers in Rockland County to ensure they will cover their expenses.” A total of about 340 migrants were scheduled to arrive in Orangeburg over the weekend.
In addition, the town board of Orangetown, the other town earmarked by Adams to receive excess migrants, held a special meeting on Saturday to discuss ways they can fend off the transfers.
Mayor Adams has been scrambling for months to deal with his newly added 60,000 new residents, more than 37,000 of whom have entered the city’s already-massive homeless population. So far, NYC has opened up 122 emergency shelters and eight large-scale humanitarian relief centers to handle the continued influx. Now Adams has opted to use tactics he has decried when used by the border governors of Texas and Arizona.
Those hot potatoes keep coming, however, and with the anticipated abandonment of Title 42, scheduled to occur three days from now on May 11, they are subject to come faster and more furiously than ever.
For more, see the NY Post.