NY judge blocks NYC from sending busloads of migrants to Orange County amid crisisBy Bernadette Hogan, Kevin Sheehan and Emily Crane
May 16, 2023
A state judge has issued yet another temporary restraining order that further thwarts Mayor Eric Adams’ push to dump migrants in upstate counties — while nearly a dozen of New York City’s asylum-seeker families arrived at a Yonkers hotel.
State Supreme Court Judge Sandra Sciortino on Tuesday granted Orange County’s request to bar the Big Apple from sending any more migrants to the region after busloads started arriving at two Newburgh hotels last week.
Under the order, the 186 asylum seekers that were already sent to the Crossroads Inn and Ramada by Wyndham will be allowed to stay in the county — but no additional migrant arrivals will be permitted, at least for now.
County Executive Steve Neuhaus’ office claimed that the Big Apple had planned to send off seven more busloads of asylum-seekers from the Big Apple before the order was handed down.
“New York City should not be establishing a homeless shelter outside of its borders in Orange County,” Neuhaus said in a statement.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/ny-judge-sandra-sciortino-grants-orange-countys-request-to-block-nyc-migrant-buses-during-crisis/
