US (Washington Insider Magazine) – The Crossroads hotel in Orange County reserved by several couples for their wedding day, will be used to receive the first group of migrants sent by Mayor Eric Adams, while they do not know what to do a few days before their ceremonies.
The decision of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, to send immigrants to hotels in the north of the state, due to the saturation in the shelters of the city, has not only generated legal battles, but has also affected the wedding plans of some couples.
Sean and Nicole’s wedding will take place in about a week and they had everything ready to receive family and friends who would travel from various countries around the world such as: Ecuador, Canada, England, Ireland and Japan, after separating 37 rooms at The Crossroads in Orange County.
However, now days after that ceremony, they do not know what will happen after all reservations were canceled after the arrival of the first group of immigrants sent from the city by the Adams Administration.
Sean told ABC 7 on Saturday that they were hoping to share the hotel with the migrants, but have been told The Crossroads will not be available for the next several months.
Gary Moretti and Deanna Mifsud are facing the same situation with their wedding, scheduled for June 24, for which they had the more than 15 rooms they reserved at The Crossroads Hotel.
The flow of immigrants to New York since August 2022 has caused a humanitarian and resource crisis, and saturated the city’s shelters, which had to resort to renting rooms in 120 hotels, which have also become saturated.
The city has received more than 67,000 people, including children, most from Venezuela, and is providing shelter, food and social services to more than 37,000 people.
As a result, Adams opted for hotels in Rockland and Orange, outside the city, encountering opposition from the top officials of these counties, both Republicans, who went to court to stop the Democrat.
The city of Yonkers, which borders the county of The Bronx, is expected to receive dozens of migrant families, and as happened before with Rockand and Orange, its mayor complained that he was not notified of this decision in advance.
Mayor Mike Spano told the outlet that some 100 migrants will be sent to the Ramada Inn where they will stay for at least a year, and he assures that he found out about this on Friday from the police in his city and assured that he “did not hear anything” from the Mayor Adams.
“I have not spoken directly with the mayor. I spoke to his deputy chief of staff, who apologized and said I was on his list to call,” Spano complained.
City councilors (municipal legislators) denounced that they have not been notified when they have housed immigrants in the areas they represent.
Meanwhile, Rockland County and the city will face each other Monday in the first court hearing to determine the sending of immigrants, which the county managed to stop last Thursday pending the court’s decision.
This article is originally published on eldiariony.com
