The town of Riverhead, New York, declared a state of emergency Tuesday night in an effort to prevent immigrants and asylum-seekers from being relocated to the town from New York City.
Riverhead Supervisor Yvette Aguiar signed the emergency declaration after seeing reports that officials from New York City were planning to move immigrants to hotels and motels in the town.
The press release announcing the state of emergency also said that the"health and safety of the residents of Riverhead remains Supervisor Aguiar’s primary concern and top priority." Aguiar told local news station News12 that New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an advisory to housing facilities in Suffolk County, which requested they take in the immigrants and offered to pay for their housing for a year.
Three hotels or motels within the town accepted the offer from New York City, per the report, prompting the emergency declaration.New York City is facing challenges in providing shelter for the immigrants who have been transported from the southern border to the Big Apple, with the city now considering school gymnasiums as a place to house some of the people.
Many larger cities across the United States have been anticipating a surge in immigrants arriving in the country now that Title 42, a pandemic-era expulsion policy, has expired with the end of the public health emergency.
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