Orange County in NY obtains temporary injunction blocking NYC’s migrant relocations

the county of Orangein the north of NYis the second to obtain a temporary injunction blocking the Big Apple City Council’s plans to relocate part of the migrants who are pouring into the city from the southern border there. USA.

A state Supreme Court judge ruled that the migrants staying at two local hotels will be allowed to stay but banned new arrivals after the county leader OrangeSteven Neuhaus, a Republican, will denounce the city of NY and to the two establishments.

Last week, Rockland County, also led by a Republican, already blocked the arrival of migrants by court order in anticipation of the end of the measure known as Title 42which since the pandemic had allowed the immediate expulsion of migrants who crossed the border without permission with Mexico.

The New York Immigration Coalition, which defends the rights of this group, criticized the measure taken by Orange County as cruel, called for coordination between the administration from the Big Apple and the county, and indicated that there are currently 186 migrants, all adult men, in the two hotels.

counties of Orange y RocklandAmong others, they have declared states of emergency in their areas to prevent hotels and other establishments from accepting migrants, they have criticized the lack of communication from the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, in these relocations, and they have denounced that they lack resources.

The spokesman for the City Council of the Big Apple, Fabien Levy, told The New York Post that until the federal government sends help, the city needs other areas to pitch in, noting that Orange County was asked to handle only a small group of all-expenses paid migrants.

The recent flood of migrants arriving by bus in the city of NY It has led the Adams administration, a Democrat, to take emergency measures such as relaxing rules for housing the homeless and selecting 20 public school gyms as potential shelters.

Previously, the city had already set up some 140 shelters, many of them Hotelswhich are hosting families with children, while young people or adults without children are placed in other accommodation.

Before the expiration Title 42last Thursday, the city’s public services were already in a critical state after the arrival of some 65 thousand migrants since last August.

New York is the only city in the country that is required by law to give a roof to anyone who does not have one, and it is the argument that some Republican leaders -such as the governors of Texas, Greg Abbotor from Florida, Ron DeSantis- are using to promote in one way or another the transfer of migrants to the Big Apple.

With information from EFE