Hochul should force NY towns to take migrants, advocates’ letter says

Dozens of advocacy groups have joined in a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochuldemanding the state force towns to accept migrants from New York City, pressuring the governor to take a more aggressive approach to the city’s deepening asylum seeker crisis. Hochul should take executive action overruling county-level orders meant to block the movement of migrants, according to the Monday letter, which was led by the Coalition for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society. The groups said in the letter that Hochul should deploy executive powers to “invalidate executive orders in counties that have refused to a...