Mayor Eric Adams is unloading up to 100 migrant families who sought shelter in New York City on Yonkers — a plan officials there ripped as “unfair” and “unacceptable.”
The migrants will be housed at a Ramada Inn on Tuckahoe Road, and anywhere from 50 to 100 families are expected, and the first ones should arrive by Sunday, officials said.
“We are compassionate to the plight of asylum seekers, and the city of Yonkers will always step up to aid others in need,” said Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano. “However, the sheer lack of communication and planning from New York City on this crucial matter is unacceptable.”
Adams had previously announced plans to move some migrants from the city to nearby counties.
Spano said Yonkers was told the families would be housed at the hotel for up to a year — but wasn’t provided resources to deal with the additional schooling, public safety and health services needed for those individuals.
“It is unfair to the asylum seekers and our city,” Spano said.
Spano called on Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul to join forces with Yonkers and other Westchester pols to come up with a plan and the funding needed to deal with the migrant influx.
“This nationwide crisis needs to be handled in a proactive, prepared team approach,” Spano said.
Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus filed two lawsuits Friday to trying stopping Adams from housing migrants at hotels in the town of Newburgh — and booting homeless US veterans living there in the process.
More than 60,000 migrants have descended on New York City in the weeks before the end of Title 42, the pandemic-era border policy initiated under former President Donald Trump that allowed Border Patrol officials to return migrants to Mexico that ended Thursday night.
Reps for Adams did not respond to questions about the Yonkers plan.
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