County Thousands of Miles From Southern Border Declares State of Emergency Over Illegal Immigration

Officials in a county that’s just north of New York City have declared a state of emergency after city officials decided to approve a plan to send illegal immigrants there.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day said on May 6 that some 340 illegal immigrant males are expected to be sent to a hotel in Orangeburg, New York, for a four-month period.
The county is located about 2,000 miles from the Texas–Mexico border.
“This county already has a housing crisis due to the lack thereof and lack of affordable housing options,” Day said in a statement. “Sending busloads of people to this county that does not have the infrastructure to care for them will only compound that issue tenfold while straining support systems that are already at a breaking point.”…}