“I think we’re going to have a standoff in the next 24 to 48 hours because I just got word that the city said, ‘screw Rockland and Orange, we’re sending these people up,’” Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus, a Republican, said in an interview Tuesday with POLITICO.against the hotel and its owner blocking it from housing “an influx of individuals without housing from the City of New York or any other municipality” unless permitted by local laws, the order read.
“We are in communication with the mayor’s team and also helping him find locations within the city limits, opening up state property and talking to other counties that are interested in having people come,” she told reporters late Tuesday.Packaging to mattresses brought into the Armoni Inn & Suites over the weekend suspected to be in preparation for the arrival of asylum seekers.
“He basically told me about the program that New York City is doing, where they are decompressing the situation in the city,” she said in an interview. “He was very much like, ‘We are looking to do this, you may or may not get some migrants.’ He said it’s in a hotel, and the city would pay for everything.”
“The state of emergency prohibits hotels/motels from providing this type of housing without a special permit by the county and municipalities from housing migrants here without an agreement with the county. The City of New York’s plan to house them longterm at hotels also violates local town zoning laws,” Cefalu said in a statement.
The grounds were cluttered with the plastic packaging for mattresses that Kenny said were brought in over the weekend. She believes this is all preparation for expanding the hotel’s capacity, by turning single rooms into doubles for more people.The supervisor would be open to assisting the migrants in the town if there was a viable plan in place. But receiving an out-of-the-blue call from Adams on Friday morning was not the way, she said.
Latimer said if the county were to help out, it would have to be done with communication and time to prepare the infrastructure necessary to provide migrants with wrap-around-services while they stay in the region.