Suburbs Are Furious at Adams’s Plan to Send Migrants to Their Hotels
Although Mr. Adams said that he had consulted with the state and with local officials, at least two said they were caught off guard and vowed to fight the plan.
“It felt like they were trying to do a Friday night drop,” said Teresa Kenny, the town supervisor of Orangetown, who said she learned about the plan only hours before Mayor Adams announced the move. “I feel like the mayor called me to check a box so he couldn’t be criticized for not talking to us.”
The Rockland County executive, Ed Day, said he was stunned by Mr. Adams’s plan, and moved quickly to find a way to stop it. He issued the state of emergency order on Saturday, declaring that no municipality could transport or house migrants in Rockland without his permission.
“Whatever we need to do to stop this, we will do,” Mr. Day, a Republican, said in a phone interview on Sunday, adding that the county is prepared to issue fines of up to $2,000, per violation, per day, to any hotel that accepts asylum seekers from the program. “They’re basically dumping them into a county where we’re not prepared for them,” he said.
Source: The New York Times
