Officials blast New York City Mayor Eric Adams' plan to send migrants to their counties
Officials representing towns in Upstate New York have rebuked NYC Mayor Eric Adams' plan to send migrants to their towns for shelter. Officials representing some New York suburbs have rebuked New York City Mayor Eric Adams' plan to send migrants to their towns for shelter. Rockland County's top official declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to Adams' plan to send 340 adult male migrants to live at an Armoni Inn and Suites in Orangeburg, New York, for four months. “The City declared itself a Sanctuary City in December of 2016 committing itself to supporting undocumented individuals while this County has not, for the simple fact that we are one-tenth the population of New York City and incapable of receiving and sustaining the volume of undocumented migrants Mayor Eric Adams intends to send over,” County executive Edwin Day said. MORE: As Trump-era immigration policy ends, Biden struggles with migrant crisis: ANALYSIS Rockland County is located close t...