NYC Eases Right-to-Shelter Rules in Bid to House Migrants Amid Suburban Backlash
In anticipation of a new influx of migrants coming to the tri-state as COVID-era immigration restrictions known as “Title 42” are set to expire, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order loosening the city’s legal restrictions on right-to-shelter rules.
A city spokesperson said it was “not a decision taken lightly and we will make every effort to get asylum seekers into shelter as quickly as possible.”
City Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter. The Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless said in a joint statement in which they said that the executive order’s changes could “force families with children to languish at the City’s intake facility for extended periods of time, potentially days on end, prolonging suffering that no human being should experience.”
The Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless said they are considering their options, including possible litigation.
The news comes amid the ongoing battle over plans to house asylum seekers in the Hudson Valley. In Rockland County, sheriff’s officers were posted outside the Armoni Hotel in Orangeburg, where a temporary restraining order is in place barring migrants from moving in.
The city was looking to send a couple hundred migrant men to the northern suburbs at what the mayor’s staff would be an emergency-use hotel. But Rockland Officials said that would simply be subterfuge for an illegal city-run shelter.
“This is a renegade operation on the part of the mayor, and I cannot even begin to believe what’s going on at this point,” said Rockland County Executive Ed Day. “I have never seen such bullying and arrogance in my entire career.”
The smug elites with their sanctuary policies are reaping what they have sewn.
I get satisfaction watching them deal with unintended consequences. Grab your popcorn and watch NYC in the following days!
This is going to be a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.
These Demonrat mayors need to get on the phone to their buddy and partner in crime, Pedo Biden, and raise holy hell and not to just ask for more money.
It is delicious to see these Demonrats reap the whirlwind of their irresponsible policies, isn’t it?
Always with the MEN ... with this invasion. ILLEGAL MILITARY AGED MEN.
Let me guess....is Rockland a more conservative area, of NY???