Immigration
NY county airport exec complains about Biden admin sending flights of child migrants
Airport authorities said that the Biden administration should be more transparent about migrant relocation operations and should do a better job at managing the migrant crisis.
October 10, 2022 6:17am
Updated: November 21, 2022 2:08pm
Federal authorities sent two planes with dozens of unaccompanied child migrants to New York hours after New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency over the large influx of migrants into the city.
Two planes carrying around 24 migrant children landed at Orange County Airport in Montgomery at around 6 p.m. on Friday, County Executive Steve Neuhaus said. Orange County is located about 60 miles north of the NYC metropolitan area.
After landing, the migrant children were boarded onto shuttle buses and sent to several locations that included the metropolitan area, but also included towns north of the city such as Kingston, and Poughkeepsie, Neuhaus added.
The flights, which came without any advance notice, left authorities in New York struggling with what to do with the children. According to Neuhaus, these are not the first migrant flights that the county receives without warning or help from the feds.
“It has been absolutely wild, he said. “I have never seen anything like this.”
Neuhaus said that the Biden administration should be more transparent about migrant relocation operations and should do a better job at managing the migrant crisis.
"They thought that the village or town knew about it, and we knew nothing. And there wasn't much we could do about it, unfortunately. But just a little forewarning or little information would have helped us considerably," Mayor Steve Brescia told Fox & Friends First.
The flights arrived in New York hours after New York City Mayor Adams announced a state of emergency as a large number of migrants is overwhelming the city’s shelter system.
“We now have a situation where more people are arriving in New York City than we can immediately accommodate, including families with babies and young children,” Adams told reporters. “Once the asylum seekers from today’s buses are provided shelter, we would surpass the highest number of people in recorded history in our city’s shelter system.”
More than 17,000 migrants have been sent from Texas and other border areas to the Big Apple since April. Adam’s expects to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year to deal with the influx of migrants if they continue to come to the city at their current rate.
