Immigration advocates and legislators have known as on a New York county to help Caribbean and different asylum seekers after a choose granted Orange County a preliminary injunction that stops New York Metropolis from sending asylum seekers to inns within the county with out getting a courtroom order.
New York State Decide Sandra Sciortino additionally mandated that New York Metropolis proceed to pay for companies for the 186 asylum seekers, together with Cubans, Haitians, and Venezuelans, who’re already staying at two inns in Newburgh, a metropolis north of New York Metropolis.
“It’s time for Orange County Government Steven Neuhaus to cease fueling harmful and hateful rhetoric that reinforces inaccurate portraits of weak people who find themselves merely pursuing their authorized proper to assert asylum,” stated Murad Awawdeh, government director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella coverage and advocacy group that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights teams all through New York.
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He informed the Caribbean Media Company that with declining populations and the financial hardships from the pandemic nonetheless plaguing many upstate areas, it is a excellent time for Neuhaus to start out specializing in the alternatives being supplied to native small companies and inns with New York Metropolis footing the invoice for brand new arrivals.
“As a substitute of infringing on the rights of enterprise house owners, we have to be working towards options that construct our communities and our economic system for all of us,” he stated, including “We’re calling on Orange County to cease taking part in politics with individuals’s lives.”
Orange County legislator Genesis Ramos stated it’s extraordinarily disappointing to see how County Government Neuhaus continues to deal with the state of affairs with asylum seekers.
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“The latest injunction in opposition to the chief orders that had been deemed unconstitutional and discriminatory ought to have been a wake-up name for him to take a collaborative method and discover actual options. As a substitute, he appears to be extra inquisitive about pandering to his base and interesting in political theatre,” he added.
Metropolis of Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey stated he hoped “our County Government and elected officers use the identical meticulous effort to attain a brief injunction to cease asylum seekers from coming to Orange County in petitioning our state and federal elected officers to create a complete immigration reform regulation.”
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