{"id":2000216,"date":"2023-08-14T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-county-officials-say-theyll-stop-accepting-asylum-seekers-after-sexual-abuse-allegations\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:01:14","slug":"new-york-county-officials-say-theyll-stop-accepting-asylum-seekers-after-sexual-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-county-officials-say-theyll-stop-accepting-asylum-seekers-after-sexual-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"NY county officials to halt acceptance of asylum-seekers amid sexual abuse claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-county-officials-say-theyll-stop-accepting-asylum-seekers-after-sexual-abuse-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2000216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A\u2064 Pause \u200bon Asylum: New \u200bYork County Takes Action<\/h2>\n<p>A New York county is taking\u2063 a\u2062 stand against offering asylum after two disturbing allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-county-officials-say-theyll-stop-accepting-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">asylum-seekers<\/a>-after-sexual-abuse-allegations\/&#8221; title=&#8221;NY county officials to halt acceptance of asylum-seekers amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-prison-escapees-recaptured-after-manhunt\/\" title=\"Ariz. prison escapees recaptured after manhunt\">sexual abuse<\/a> claims.&#8221;>sexual assault involving asylum-seekers<\/a> have recently come to light. Erie County\u200b Executive Mark \u2062Poloncarz,\u2062 a Democrat,\u2064 announced on Saturday\u200c that Mayor Eric Adams \u2064has agreed to temporarily halt the influx of immigrants into their county, urging New York City to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outgoing-border-patrol-chief-calls-for-more-wall-construction\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Chief urges increased wall construction.\">enhance security measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur refugee agencies did their best to\u200b provide support and assistance, but our community&#8217;s trust and good faith have been betrayed,\u201d Poloncarz wrote. \u201cWe \u2063were\u2063 assured of safety, security, and proper screening. Clearly, that \u200bhasn&#8217;t\u2063 been done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, New\u2063 York Republicans are \u200dpointing\u2064 fingers at Poloncarz, \u2063blaming him\u2062 for the surge of immigrants in Erie County and the \u200bresulting fiscal\u200d challenges it poses.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c100% of the blame is \u2064on \u200dMark Poloncarz,\u201d stated Chrissy Casilio, the Republican \u2062challenger for Erie County executive. \u201cThere&#8217;s no other person to blame but him because he is the\u200b one that decided to put politics over\u2064 the\u2063 people of Erie\u2063 County. \u2064And\u2062 now this is what we get.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a press conference last Wednesday, Mayor Adams revealed that the\u2063 city is projected to spend $12 billion by the end of fiscal \u20632025, with $1.4 billion already distributed statewide as of\u2062 July 7, according \u200bto his\u2062 office.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement \u200cover \u200cthe weekend, \u200bPoloncarz commended Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) for deploying National Guard troops to the Cheektowaga hotels where asylum-seekers are \u200ccurrently residing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs stated to\u2064 me this\u200c morning, it will take a day or two for the \u2064National Guard members to arrive, but they will soon be\u200b present,\u201d Poloncarz wrote. \u201cI thank Governor Hochul and Commissioner Bray for\u200b offering this assistance to further assure that the safety of the entire \u200dcommunity comes \u200bfirst.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week,\u200d a 22-year-old man was charged with sexual abuse at a hotel in Cheektowaga, marking the \u2062second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-spraying-disinfectant-at-students-who-didnt-wear-masks-properly-faces-felony-child-abuse-charges\/\" title=\"Florida teacher arrested for allegedly spraying disinfectant at students who didn't wear masks properly, faces felony child abuse charges\">incident involving<\/a> an asylum-seeker in the same town.<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy Casilio expressed her concern, saying, \u201cIt&#8217;s hard to imagine\u2062 what I would do \u2063in this situation. \u2064But\u2063 any decision that I make ever, at any point, puts the best interest of\u2062 Erie\u200c County residents\u2064 first.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Sources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">The\u2063 Washington Examiner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York county halts asylum provision due to recent sexual assault allegations involving asylum-seekers. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, a Democrat, stated that Mayor Eric Adams agreed to suspend sending more immigrants to their county. Poloncarz urged New York City to reconsider the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}