Rockland County declares state of emergency to prevent NYC from busing in migrants

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