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(Trends Wide) — The city of New York announced this Friday that it will transport immigrants who so wish to hotels outside the city, given the increase in arrivals that is expected after the end of Title 42 next week, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
In a statement released Friday, Adams said the new program “will provide up to four months of temporary housing in nearby New York counties, outside of New York City, to adult single male asylum seekers who are already under the care of the city”.
Adams repeatedly appealed to Washington for help, saying the arrival of immigrants in New York and other large cities in the Northeast amounts to a humanitarian crisis that the federal government should address. According to an inside information memo obtained and first reported by Trends Wide on Friday, the city expects 800 immigrants to arrive in the city each day from the southern border after Title 42 implementation ends Thursday.
According to Adams, the program to provide asylum seekers with shelter for up to four months outside of New York will be voluntary. The program will be implemented with two hotels located in the small villages of Orange Lake and Orangeburg, with the possibility of expanding it, the mayor said. Adam’s spokesman, Fabien Levy, told Trends Wide that, initially, the two hotels will have the capacity to accommodate 300 immigrants, although it is possible “to expand.”
Orange Lake is a community in Orange County, in upstate New York. The population was 9,770 at the 2020 census. Orangeburg is a community in the city of Orangetown, in Rockland County, New York, where about 4,600 people live, according to census data.
The city will provide transportation from New York to the hotels for asylum seekers who choose to participate, Adams said.
Adams stated, “Despite calling on the federal government for a national decompression strategy since last year, and a statewide decompression strategy, New York City has been left without the support it needs to manage this crisis. With a leadership vacuum, we are now forced to undertake our own decompression strategy.
“New York City continues to step up to manage this crisis, and this new program is an extension of our compassionate response, but these actions do not mean we no longer need urgent action, including a national decompression strategy, financial resources , expedited work authorization and real immigration reform by Congress,” he said.
Adams said Orange Lake and Orangeburg county mayors and executives, as well as other local leaders, have been notified of the plans. Trends Wide has reached out to local leaders in Orange Lake and Orangeburg for their responses to the mayor’s plan. Trends Wide also asked New York Governor Kathy Hochul for her response to the mayor’s plan to transport immigrants out of the city.
Since last spring, more than 60,800 asylum seekers have passed through New York City and more than 37,500 are currently under the city’s ward, according to city data.
Earlier Friday, city sources outlined a number of options to Trends Wide’s Gloria Pazmino as the city braces for a surge of immigrant arrivals next week. Some of the options being considered include housing immigrants in tents in Central Park or in a converted aircraft hangar at John F. Kennedy airport and the construction of small temporary houses.
