Rockland County threatens fines, lawsuit in reply to Adams’ migrants plan

Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Rockland County officials on Monday pushed back against plans by Mayor Eric Adams to bus 300 or more asylum seekers upstate, saying they’re considering legal action to block the move and would fine any hotel that takes in asylum seekers up to $2,000 per person, per day.

The Adams administration did not respond to accusations from Rockland County officials that they’d been blindsided by the proposal and given few details about where asylum seekers were to be taken. On Friday, the mayor issued anoting that the city had received “over 60,800 asylum seekers” since last spring, of which 37,500 remained in city shelters

Adams additionally blamed the Biden administration and Congress for failing to establish a “decompression strategy” to help manage the crisis and that in absence of a federal response, “New York City has been left without the necessary support to manage this crisis.”“Mayor Adams can criticize Congress for its failure to establish a national decompression strategy,” he said.

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