New York sues 31 counties in its state that reject the distribution of immigrants

The city of NY filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 31 counties in the state that are blocking, with executive orders, that the Mayor’s Administration Eric Adams send immigrants to hotels located in those jurisdictions.

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According to Legal department of the city, the action of the counties is “an illegal practice”, as reported today at a press conference.

Executive orders issued by counties impose penalties on hotels that agree to receive immigrants, whom the city is required to accommodate – like any homeless person – because of a court order issued 40 years ago.

In the lawsuit, the city asks the Manhattan Supreme Court declare executive orders null and void and prevent counties from taking action to enforce them any longer.

“These counties have tried to close their doors instead of assisting the city’s reasonable and lawful efforts to address this crisis. We are asking the court to declare these executive orders null and void, in order to provide refuge to asylum seekers during these unprecedented times.”pointed out the legal adviser Sylvia Hinds Radix.

Since August of last year, the flow of immigrants has not stopped arriving in NYwhich saturated the public shelters of the city, which had to resort to renting hotels in the metropolitan area and later others in the north of the state, but has faced rejection from the counties -mostly with Republican mayors- who have resorted to legal action to refuse to receive immigrants.

So far, 74,000 immigrants have arrived in the city, of which 47,200 are under the care of the city, a figure that increases to 96,600 if you add to them the homeless New Yorkers who are also giving hostel. Both the city and the state have declared an emergency for the flow that has not stopped.

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The Legal Department recalls in the demand that the city is sending only a small number of immigrants to those counties and you are paying the amount for those hotels.

They indicate that despite assuming the expenses, the counties have tried to block the city from making the arrangements in their jurisdictions using multiple methods, such as executive orders, “based on misleading information” about what “somehow (shelter immigrants) would constitute an emergency that would endanger public safety.”

“Since this crisis began, the city of NY has endeavored, practically on his own, to provide shelter, food, clothing and other services to asylum seekers who arrive in our city. We are doing our part and we will continue to do our part, but we need every locality in the state to do their part as well.”Mayor Adams said in a statement.

He recalled that they have repeatedly said that the shelter system in the city “It is at maximum capacity and we have run out of space.”

“This lawsuit aims to put an end to this xenophobic intolerance and to ensure that our state acts as one as we work together to manage this humanitarian crisis justly and humanely, as we have done from the beginning and as we will continue to do.”he claimed.

The city reached an agreement this week with a total of 50 Protestant churches and some Muslim centers to house single men at night before the lack of shelters

Source: Elcomercio

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