Video shows hellish conditions in migrant camp at Calif. border with migrants huddled under trash bags, begging for food
Hochul is requesting the feds erect temporary housing at military installations and Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, increase funding, and allow migrants to work by removing a requirement they wait at least 180 days after requesting asylum.that allowed officials to expel people with relative ease if they crossed the border illegally.
Many of the migrants are escaping poverty and political dysfunction in Latin American countries like Venezuela.But local officials like Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus said there was blame to go around considering the dozens of migrants the New York City Mayor Eric Adams reportedly sent with little notice to Newburgh on Thursday despite a local order aimed at barring their arrival.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler released a joint statement with Hochul on Friday calling on Biden to increase aid for New York.A lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union aims to undo local orders in Orange and Rockland counties preventing migrants from using local motels and short-term rentals.