Migrants board a city bus to a shelter intake center after traveling on a bus from Del Rio, Texas, at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, US, on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
Lawsuits are mounting in New York state and federal courts as officials in two downstate communities try to barricade themselves from an inflow of migrants and asylum seekers being relocated by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The city had made arrangements with certain hotels in Rockland and Orange counties, but both jurisdictions reacted quickly by issuing executive orders, on May 6 and May 8, respectively, seeking to prevent the migrants and asylum seekers from entering, and the hotels from making their rooms available to them.
