NEW: We're suing Rockland and Orange counties for invoking a non-existent emergency in order to bar hotels from making rooms available to migrants.
Immigrants have every right to travel and reside anywhere in New York, free of xenophobic harassment and discrimination. pic.twitter.com/hTfUeB5PhW
— NYCLU (@NYCLU) May 11, 2023
“The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against Rockland and Orange Counties for barring the arrival of migrants who chose to relocate from New York City,” the leftwing group announced.
“The two counties had issued executive orders barring hotels from making rooms available to migrants, in violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Constitution. The four plaintiffs are migrants who sheltered in New York City and opted into a city-run program to relocate.”
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