Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, is suing 30 counties in New York over local executive orders that forbade the city from hosting migrants in their communities.
Adams, a Democrat, declared a lawsuit on Wednesday, calling the acts of these counties a “unlawful attempt” to stop New York City from reacting to an emergency and humanitarian catastrophe that affects the entire state. The lawsuit requests that the court nullify the regional orders.
In a statement, Adams said, “This lawsuit seeks to end this xenophobic bigotry and ensure our state acts as one as we work together to manage this humanitarian crisis fairly and humanely, as we have done from the beginning and as we will continue to do.”
Tens of thousands of migrants have flooded into the five boroughs of New York City during the past year, overwhelming the city. The city of New York is presently housing more than 47,200 of the more than 74,000 asylum seekers who have sought protection there, the majority of whom entered the country through the southern border, according to the mayor’s office. As many as 900 migrants may have entered the city during several weeks in May, with hundreds arriving every day.
Hunter is connected to another co-chair of the Biden campaign, who requested Hunter’s briefing “on the Ukraine.”
On January 10, 2023, in Albany, New York, Mayor of New York City Eric Adams watches as Governor Kathy Hochul delivers her State of the State address in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol. Adams introduced a new initiative on Monday that will place asylum seekers in religiously affiliated shelters. (Hans Pennink for AP)
The city is frantically trying to locate housing for the huge surge of migrants. In addition to setting up shelters in hotels, school gymnasiums, and buildings owned by churches or other faith-based organisations, New York City has erected more than 160 emergency locations that provide temporary housing. Adams even proposed that the city pay renters and private individuals to accommodate migrants.
Adams proclaimed a state of emergency on May 5 and a “new voluntary programme” to transfer migrants to other areas of New York state because there wasn’t enough room for them in New York City.
“Since this crisis started, New York City has stepped up to offer housing, food, clothing, and other resources to asylum seekers coming in our city—practically on its own. We have done and will continue to do our share, but every municipality in the state must also contribute, according to Adams.
His proposal, nevertheless, puts the city at odds with numerous counties in New York which do not want to house the migrants. According to those counties, providing refuge to migrants would endanger public safety due to widespread drug use and disorderly conduct at the hotels where New York City has housed asylum seekers. The city has been issued restraining orders prohibiting the housing of migrants in several counties and one town.
Ohio senators remove House projects from the budget, paving the way for a new $1 billion fund.
Migrants who have come to the sanctuary city are staying at The Row Hotel in New York City. The Fox News
Claims of dangers to public safety were deemed “baseless” by the mayor’s office, which also noted that the city is only making an effort to place a “relatively small” number of residents in other areas.
While many communities have been immensely welcoming of these newcomers to their cities and towns, Adams claimed that other elected leaders have tried to erect figurative walls around their communities through illegal executive orders.
The complaint follows the Tuesday halting of two New York County orders intended to prevent New York City from transferring migrants to hotels within its borders.
Orange County and Rockland County’s orders prohibiting local hotels and motels from renting rooms to migrants from New York City were prevented from taking effect by Judge Nelson Roman of the Southern District of New York.
After son poses with the Nazi salute, Oregon GOP House Speaker is called to resign
On June 6, 2023 in New York City, a queue of hundreds of asylum seekers forms outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. Since 2013, when the city implemented a legislation barring city agencies from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement agencies unless there is a warrant for the person’s arrest, New York City has offered refuge to nearly 46,000 asylum-seekers. (Image: David Dee Delgado via Getty))
The judge agreed with civil rights organisations’ claims that there was discrimination against immigrants based on their race, national origin, and alienage, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The migrant situation in New York City was made worse by Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s plan to shuttle migrants to safe haven towns like Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Additionally, Texas communities have bused migrants to towns farther inside the state. This week, it came to light that Florida officials had been flying migrants to California in addition to sending them in the past to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
California politicians responded angrily to the flights, accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of kidnapping and taking advantage of the people involved. Florida officials retaliated by releasing a video that they claim demonstrates that the flights were voluntary.
DeSantis stated on Wednesday that it was appropriate for “sanctuary” states and communities to bear the majority of the burden of the immigration crisis.
“I think these sanctuary jurisdictions should be the ones that have to bear that if there is a policy to have an open border,” he said. “Florida is not a sanctuary.”
