Orange County Govt Steven Neuhaus sues migrant lodges, Mayor Eric Adams

An upstate chief filed two lawsuits to cease Mayor Eric Adams and resort operators from housing migrants in Orange County lodges — and booting homeless US veterans residing there within the course of.

Orange County Govt Steven Neuhaus filed the lawsuits Friday in State Supreme Courtroom in opposition to Adams and the house owners of Crossroads Lodge and Ramada by Wyndham within the city of Newburgh after dozens of migrants have been despatched on buses from New York Metropolis to the lodges starting Thursday.

Neuhaus stated that Adams had despatched 82 migrants — all of them single males — to the Newburgh lodges this week.

“It is a public security situation,” Neuhaus informed The Put up Friday, including that Adams had assured Orange County leaders that no buses would arrive with migrants till additional discover. “We don’t know if anybody has been vetted, we don’t know the place they’re from. We can’t belief the mayor.”

“Adams lied to us,” Neuhaus continued. “The State Police have been calling me and telling me, ‘We don’t know what’s occurring.’”

In a single galling case, 20 struggling vets have been evicted from the Crossroads Lodge to be able to make room for the migrants.

“It’s completely outrageous that homeless veterans could be displaced to alleviate New York Metropolis’s migrant disaster. That Mayor Eric Adams would select to hazard the welfare of our veterans speaks volumes to what a debacle this has change into,” stated Republican Congressman Mike Lawler in a press release Saturday.

Lawler represents Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties.

 “First, Mayor Adams and his workforce introduced a ‘pilot program’ for bussing migrants out of New York Metropolis with none notification of municipalities they have been being despatched to,” Lawler stated. Then, New York Metropolis fought in court docket to attempt to strip away the native management these municipalities need to cease efforts like this. Now, Mayor Adams is actually placing homeless veterans on the road in an effort to not need to cope with the migrants arriving in New York Metropolis.”

Greater than 60,000 migrants have descended on New York Metropolis within the weeks earlier than the top of Title 42, the Trump-era border coverage that allowed Border Patrol officers to return migrants to Mexico that ended Thursday night time.

A Metropolis Corridor spokesman stated Orange County must “do their half” to shoulder a few of the migrant burden.

“New York Metropolis has cared for greater than 65,000 migrants — sheltering, feeding, and caring for them, and we have now finished so largely with out incident,” stated Metropolis Corridor spokesman Fabien Levy. 

“Proper now, we’re asking Orange County to handle lower than one-quarter of 1% of the asylum seekers who’ve come to New York Metropolis, with New York paying for shelter, meals, and providers. We’re reviewing our authorized choices,” he added

Town has been so determined to search out housing for the tidal wave of migrant arrivals that it practically moved some households into the health club of a Brooklyn elementary college.