'What the city of New York is doing is more akin to human trafficking than providing services,' Rockland County Executive Ed Day said at a news conference.
The declarations prohibit hotels in the two suburban counties from housing migrants.
About 340 single adult men are expected to be sent to the Armoni Inn and Suites in Orangeburg in Rockland County. The county executives, both Republicans, are furious at Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat."What the city of New York is doing is more akin to human trafficking than providing services," Rockland County Executive Ed Day said at a news conference. "We are not equipped to humanely assist these individuals, which eventually we’re going to have to do.
The situation is only expected to worsen with Thursday’s expiration of Title 42, the pandemic-era program that allowed for the expulsion of thousands of migrants arriving in the U.S. in the name of public health.— Rockland County Executive Ed Day"We cannot put the needs of the people who are being sent here ahead of our own residents," Day said. "I will not accept that."
Rockland County has threatened to fine any hotels that don’t get county approval to house migrants $2,000 per day per migrant, or a $68,000 daily fine. that I have read and agree
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