NYC Mayor Adams plans to move migrants from county to Republican-led counties with 'immigrant protection' law

New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s plan to relocate several hundred illegal immigrants to hotels in Orange and Rockland counties, New York, began Thursday, moving asylum seekers from a sanctuary county to areas that have fiercely opposed the plan. have opposed.

County and local leaders in Orange and Rockland counties have pushed against Adams’ plan to send more than 300 migrants to the Armani Inn & Suites Hotel in Orangeburg and The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh in Rockland, after the migrants arrived on Thursday. ,

Supporters were seen welcoming him outside the square with placards in their hands. Orange County legislator Kvinderian Lujan said outside the hotel that 20 to 30 people had arrived on the first bus and about 60 were expected on Thursday, all men.

“We stand in full solidarity with the asylum seekers,” he said.

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Mayor Eric Adams at New York City Hall. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Neighboring Orange County, Rockland County successfully obtained a temporary restraining order from a state Supreme Court judge on Tuesday, arguing that the move violated local zoning regulations.

As the battle rages over where to house the immigrants taxing New York City facilities, Adams has argued that the rest of the state should help ease the burden facing its largest city. Needed

The spokesperson told Fox News Digital earlier this week, “New York City has taken care of more than 61,000 immigrants — sheltering, feeding and caring for them, and we’ve done so largely without incident. ” “We need the federal government to step in, but until they do, we need other elected officials in the state and across the country to do their part and emulate the humane and compassionate approach that New York City is taking.” has taken in the last one year.

But a plan to bus more than 300 people from New York City to Rockland County would take the migrants just past nearby Westchester County, which in 2018 used none of its resources to aid a federal law enforcement investigation on the basis of an individual case. A law was passed to ban it. national origin.

The law, called the Immigrant Protection Act, was not designed to be a “sanctuary” law, Westchester County Executive George Latimer argued at the time, despite facing pushback from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Migrants arrive at The Crossroads Hotel in New York, New York, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (Image direct to Fox News Digital)

Buses began arriving on Thursday in nearby New York, New York, which is located in Orange County and just north of Rockland and Westchester counties. Those migrants will be kept at the Crossroads Hotel, where supporters holding signs welcome the migrants as soon as the bus stops.

“We are here as advocates for human dignity and want to make sure people who come here know that there are people in Orange County, the City of Newburgh, the City of Newburgh and beyond, who are helpful and welcome to those who seek is,” Lujan said from outside the hotel, according to a Times Union report.

Meanwhile, Rockland County Executive Ed Day had made heated remarks to the mayor of New York City, going so far as to threaten to “hug Adams”.

,[Adams] Never asked for an opinion, he just said, ‘Screw you, Rockland County,'” Day said during a radio interview earlier this week. , , Mister Adams, you may try to crush us, [and] I will reach out to you and grab your throat for the people of Rockland County.”