NY Rep. Claudia Tenney demands to know how feds are vetting migrants
An upstate GOP congresswoman is demanding to know how the feds are vetting migrants being bused to northern New York and who exactly is picking up the tab.
Rep. Claudia Tenney, who represents the Finger Lakes region east of Buffalo surrounding Rochester, on Sunday shared with The Post a preview of the letter she said she is sending Monday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The lawmaker said the “arrival of migrants is continuing to worsen an ever-deepening fiscal crisis, threatening our communities’ ability to provide essential services, and harming care for our most vulnerable.”
Tenney blamed the influx of migrants on the Biden administration’s “dereliction of its duty to enforce our immigration laws and enforce border security.”
Democratic Erie County officials said several weeks ago that they would not shelter any more migrants from New York City after two asylum seekers were separately accused of sex crimes outside of Buffalo.
“It is vital we ensure all criminals are expeditiously deported and not being supported free of charge
with by taxpayer dollars,” Tenney wrote in her letter.
Dozens of migrants, who largely hailed from Africa, were also evicted from SUNY Buffalo last week over safety concerns, in a move critics said was fueled by prejudice.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams struck a deal with Gov. Kathy Hochul to send 1,200 asylum seekers families in the city’s care to shelters elsewhere in the Empire State earlier this month.
The city has welcomed more than 100,000 migrants from the southern border since last spring, with about 60,000 currently being housed in a network of hotels and temporary shelters that are bursting at the seams.
About half of the state’s counties outside the city have issued local orders of emergency banning hotels, motels and other businesses from contracting to take migrant seekers, according to NY1.
Adams has repeatedly implored his fellow Democrats in President Biden’s cabinet to pick up the tab for the city’s role in the crisis, which he estimates will hit $12 billion over the next three years.
