Asylum seekers greeted as they arrive in Orange County

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Locals turned out to welcome the migrants as they arrived at the Town of Newburgh hotel (photo: Bob McCormick)

TOWN OF NEWBURGH – Several Orange County officials and members of community groups were at the hotel in the Town of Newburgh on Thursday as two busloads of migrants were transported from New York City to be housed there temporarily as the crisis mounts as to what to do with and where to house migrants sent to New York City from the southern border.

Orange County Legislator Kevindaryan Lujan said they were at the hotel to welcome the migrants.

“We were there to show our support and solidarity and to provide any help and assistance to link the organizations that are helping to put this together to link them to resources that are in the area,” he said.

For the Many’s spokesman Aaron Narraph Fernando said what should have been a positive environment for the Hudson Valley’s newest community members has, in his words, “been tarnished by fear-mongering rhetoric from Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus, who has spread misinformation, confusion, and anti-immigrant sentiments.”




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