New York boroughs declare a state of emergency as Mayor Adams plans to bring illegal migrants to them from the border

Counties in upstate New York are vowing to fight New York Mayor Eric Adams’ plans to send migrants and asylum-seekers north for temporary housing.

On Monday, Orange County Executive Steven M. Neuhaus issued an enforcement order for hotels not to accept asylum seekers.

Neuhaus accused the mayor of failing to keep his promise to send only 60 adult male asylum seekers without notifying Orange County officials. He said the county could no longer rely on the New York officials’ accounts.

“[T]There is no reason to believe that these migrants or asylum seekers will leave Orange County after New York City stops paying for housing and all services currently received in New York City, or that many thousands more migrants or asylum seekers will leave do not do so will be transported to Orange County,” Neuhaus said.

The county executive predicted that an influx of migrants into the county will overwhelm the city’s resources, and as such there is “no legal basis to provide adequate services to these migrants or asylum seekers.”

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Neuhaus ordered that all “hotels, motels and/or short-term rental facilities not accept said migrants and/or asylum seekers for housing in Orange County.”

At a news conference with U.S. Rep. Michael Lawler and other officials, Rockland County Executive Ed Day said the county was “not in a position to humanely assist these individuals, which we ultimately have to do.”

Day, a Republican, called Mayor Adams’ plan to bus up to 300 single male migrants to hotels in Rockland and neighboring Orange counties “the same as throwing people who can’t swim in the middle of the ocean and shutting them down.” say: ‘Go to shore.’ That can’t work.”

Adams, a Democrat, announced Friday the plan to bring migrants to the two counties north of the city on a voluntary basis. He said the program would help the city handle the more than 37,500 asylum seekers in the city’s care.

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Adams announced the plan as cities across the US prepare for a surge in asylum seekers when pandemic-era Title 42 policies, which allowed the expulsion of many migrants, end. Officials believe the end of immigration restrictions under Title 42 of a 1944 health law will result in more migrants attempting to cross the southern border.

Adams said the migrants sent from New York City to Rockland and Orange counties would be provided with meals, counseling and other services for stays of up to four months at the hotels.

Adams has complained for months that the number of migrants arriving in New York is exceeding the city’s capacity and has criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other elected Republican officials for busing migrants into New York.

The Adams administration used hotels in the city to house some migrants, mostly families with children. Plans to house others at locations including a cruise ship terminal and a Bronx beach parking lot have been scrapped. Texas and other border states have grappled with historic numbers of illegal border crossings since the crisis began in the early days of President Biden’s administration.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to the mayor’s office for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.