Cayuga County has extended its state of emergency to prevent New York State from sending migrants and asylum seekers to the county.
Originally put in place on the 19th, the order will now be extended an additional five days. Legislature Chair David Gould, who signed the order, cites Cayuga County’s lack of infrastructure and support services to handle an influx of migrants as well as a lack of communication between the county and either state or metropolitan leaders on the matter as the reasons for extending the order.
As New York City is seeing a large amount of migrants flock to it, the city has mulled the idea of sending them Upstate – an idea frowned upon by many Finger Lakes communities, including Onondaga and Yates counties, that have declared similar states of emergency.
