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NEW YORK CITY sued nearly half the state’s counties on Wednesday over their attempts to keep out international migrants.
The move is the latest escalation in an ongoing battle between city officials and local leaders.
The suit, filed in state court on Wednesday, accuses at least 30 New York counties of seeking to “wall off their borders” from asylum seekers through “xenophobic” executive orders that violate state and federal law.
Sylvia Hinds-Radiz, a lawyer for the city, said: “These counties have implemented misguided and unlawful executive orders premised on false claims that the prospect of a few hundred asylum-seekers sheltered at the city’s expense across multiple counties constitute an emergency and imperil public safety.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly declared that the city had reached its limit on new arrivals. Last month, the city began bussing dozens of migrants to a handful of hotels north of the city.
County leaders threatened criminal and financial penalties against New York City and any hotels or other businesses that aided in the relocation of migrants.
Ed Day, the Republican executive of Rockland County, one of the first counties to receive migrants from New York City, said: “We are not equipped to humanely assist these individuals.”
