Rockland County Executive Ed Day vows to fight NYC mayor Eric Adams’ migrant bus plan
, a Democrat, announced the plan Friday to bus migrants to the two counties north of the city on a voluntary basis. He said the program would help the city handle the more than 37,500 asylum seekers already in the city’s care.Day responded by announcing a state of emergency Saturday.
The county executive said Rockland County already has an “extreme” housing crisis and sending busloads of migrants “will only compound that issue tenfold while straining support systems that are already at a breaking point.” Day said in a news release that the state of emergency will prohibit other municipalities from bringing people to Rockland County and will prohibit hotels and motels from housing immigrants without a license.
He said the state of emergency will remain in effect for at least 30 days and include fines of $2,000 per migrant for the hotels and for any municipality that sends migrants to Rockland.‘ plan including U.S. Rep. Michael Lawler, a Republican.referred to the mayor’s Friday news release about the migrant plan.
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