Warren County declares migrant-focused State of Emergency
The action is preemptive in nature, county administrator says.
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Warren County declares migrant-focused State of Emergency
Add Warren County to the list of New York State counties that are slowing New York City’s plan to bus asylum seekers to locations outside their borders. Orange and Rockland counties in the lower Hudson Valley have both issued states of emergency to stop or slow the busing plan, various news outlets have reported.
Warren County declared a state of emergency on Tuesday May 23, but County Administrator John Taflan says the declaration is a preemptive move, and the county has not yet heard if New York City or the state plans to bus people to the North Country at all.
"At this point in time, we are expecting zero” buses of immigrants, Taflan told FoothillsBusinessDaily.com.
"I don't know that we have any idea of what number it would be” if asylum-seekers were to arrive. He said that currently New York City is receiving about 900 people a day on top of the tens of thousands who have arrived in recent months. News reports say the city received about 4,200 people in the last week alone.
Taflan said a task force of county agencies and services groups he organized to help plan the county's response if migrants do show up met Monday and considered the costs of absorbing the migrants.
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