Officials in Rockland County, New York took legal action Monday to shut down a so-called “migrant flophouse” where 31 asylum seekers were crammed into a suburban one-family home. The migrants — hailing from Ecuador and Guatemala — were discovered following a surprise inspection at the house located at 295 New Hempstead Road in the tiny hamlet of New City in Clarkstown. “In essence, it was a migrant flophouse,” said Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann. “We knew something was amiss. What we saw was so bad. This was by far the worst flophouse we’ve seen.” Hoehman fumed that the migrant crisis had...
