Katie Kerekes, FISM News

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Shortly after the announcement last weekend from New York City’s mayor that he will be moving the migrants from his city to the neighboring suburbs, officials in those counties publicly rejected the idea and issued a state of emergency, a National Review report states.

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday his plans to move forward with dumping migrants off to hotels in some smaller suburban counties around his jurisdiction.

Citing the city’s rejected FEMA request for $350 million in aid for the over 60,000 migrants who have flocked there within the last year, Adams condemned the Biden administration for its decision to send $30 million, calling the situation a “crisis.”

That same day he announced that he would bus migrants to the nearby Rockland and Orange counties. The leaders of those counties swiftly refuted the mayor’s claim.

“Whatever we need to do to stop this, we will do,” Rockland County Executive Ed Day said in a statement, contending the county’s unpreparedness.

Referred to as the Preserve America Community on its feature page at ny.gov, Rockland County gives access to a handful of state parks, as roughly one-third of its land is protected. Nestled along the coast just 15 miles from Manhattan as one of the smallest counties in the state, it is home to a population of less than 340,000, according to the 2020 census.

To the north, Orange County boasts its desirability as an 839 square-mile region with vast stretches of mountains and valleys, lakes, and wildlife.

According to Rockland County Supervisor Teresa Kenny, in an echo of Day’s assertion, the regions are unable to handle Mayor Adams’ undermining of the situation he created. She added the solution must come from the Federal level.

This development comes as the nation will see the expiration of Title 42 this week, a Trump-era policy requiring migrants to remain in Mexico as they seek asylum.

As the border crisis continues, FISM has continually reported on state efforts to mitigate the influx expected at the border once the policy ends. This includes the most recent announcement out of Texas regarding Governor Greg Abbott’s deployment of a new unit of the National Guard to the border on Monday. The governor maintains the Lone Star state’s ability to secure the border and said if the state acted in isolation, the border would be secure.