Rockland County”™s government declared a state of emergency this weekend to block a plan by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to relocate illegal immigrants to a hotel in the county.
According to an NBC News report, Adams announced on Friday that nearly 340 single adult men were going to be sent to the Armoni Inn and Suites in Orangeburg for a four-month period. The relocation was designed to create vacancies ahead of an expected influx of new arrivals from the Southern border that is expected to occur when Title 42 ends on May 11.
In calling a state of emergency, Rockland County”™s officials will prohibit lodging establishments from housing the illegal immigrants without a license for 30 days ”“ the order could be extended. County officials claimed Adams”™ office failed to communicate with them regarding who would paying for the care of bused-in arrivals.
“This is absurd, and we will not stand for it,” said County Executive Ed Day. “There is nothing humanitarian about a Sanctuary City sending busloads of people to a County that does not have the infrastructure to care for them. It”™s the same as throwing them in the middle of the ocean with nowhere to swim.”
Day stated the county was already experiencing a strain on its schools, housing, social services and food pantries because of a growing number of illegal immigrants who were resettled locally. The county executive also said Adams”™ office pledged to secure work permits for those being bused in, but he also pointed out that work permits usually take up to six months on average for asylum seekers to obtain ”“ two months longer than the proposed relocation to Orangeburg ”“ and added that Adams”™ office did not provide a back-up plan in the event the work permits could be obtained.
Adams”™ office also declared it was relocating illegal immigrants to a hotel in Orange County”™s Orange Lake ”“ this action did not create pushback from Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus. Both Day and Neuhaus are Republicans and Adams is a Democrat.
“This screams out for solutions on the Federal level pertaining to our broken immigration system because any Federal lawmakers in support of this and Mayor Adams are not doing these folks any favors, quite the opposite; you”™re not helping people, you”™re hurting people,” concluded County Executive Day.
Photo: The Armoni Inn and Suites in Orangeburg, the proposed site for the relocation of NYC-based migrants
The summer retreats will be full of workers of foreign descent brought here to work the camps. They are here legally or not -brought, by bus, car service, and even shipped into airports or other means by the people who run the camps – this I know from working the taxi’s here in Sullivan county.
States of emergency or not – they’ll be here
I have no qualm with them. I do believe it is a situation though that needs to be addressed for humanitarian reasons. No medical insurance is one of them. A lot of them for example do not seek prenatal care when pregnant.
Stop discrimination so there will be no need for the invasion of illegals
I had no health insurance when I was pregnant and I was born here. I was working as a food server at the time and no benefits were offered. People weren’t begging for free insurance on my behalf. Let’s worry about taking care of everyone here now, and legally, before we worry about insurance for people who cannot follow the laws.
Nyc outta keep its crap on its side of the bridge!
Send the migrants to DC
It’s not discrimination it’s common sense! I don’t want my tax money spent on housing and feeding them. I’d rather help someone here legally! Wait for it… the liberals will start screaming racism…