New York City officials say they will be unable to accommodate an expected influx of asylum-seekers as the federal government's pandemic-era immigration restriction ends.
A Town of Newburgh police vehicle is parked outside The Crossroads Hotel where two busloads of migrants arrived hours earlier, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Newburgh, N.Y. New York City Mayor Eric Adams touched off a furor north of the city by announcing last week that the city would temporarily send north up to 300 single, adult men to two hotels in suburban Rockland County and neighboring Orange County.
On Wednesday evening, he temporarily suspended portions of New York’s longstanding law guaranteeing shelter to all residents. A few hours later, he sent roughly two dozen migrants on a bus to a hotel in the upstate town of Newburgh, overridingAdams' “decompression strategy” marks the latest escalation in the city’s ongoing struggle to handle tens of thousands of migrants, many of whom have arrived in the last year on buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican.
The city has also turned to the real estate industry, including the owner of the Flatiron Building, who rebuffed requests to turn the iconic skyscraper into a shelter, theAt a news conference Thursday, Manuel Castro, the commissioner for immigrant affairs, said the city “no longer can physically accommodate people that request emergency shelter.”
The city has also faced pushback in its early efforts to escort migrants out of the city. In Rockland County, local officials successfully secured a temporary restraining order banning the city from sending migrants to a hotel. “Our view is to continue working with the counties, but really focusing on continuing to support Mayor Adams because he’s receiving the brunt of most of this,” she said.
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