Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has quietly dropped legal action against more than a dozen upstate counties that issued emergency orders banning migrants from being bused to their doorstep.
The city filed a lawsuit in June suing 31 counties over the orders, describing the edicts as “misguided and unlawful.”
The emergency orders came in response to Adams announcing his administration would begin busing asylum seekers to private hotels outside of the Big Apple.
City Hall confirmed to The Post on Monday that it has dropped 17 counties from the lawsuit.The move was first reported by Newday.
The legal challenges were abandoned after a judge ruled that the city would have to bring each case in the individual counties, making it a logistical nightmare for the Big Apple’s legal department.
Meanwhile, 10 more lawsuits filed by the city against other counties were dismissed after it was determined that those counties didn’t even have emergency orders on the books barring migrants.
That leaves just four counties named in the city’s lawsuit — Dutchess, Orange, Onondaga and Rockland. All four counties have also sued New York City over the relocation of migrants.
“|We are grateful to the counties across the state who are welcoming migrants, but we have been clear since the start that this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for New York — and every community in the state must do their part to manage this crisis,” said Jonah Allon, a City Hall rep.
Adams has repeatedly called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to enlist other counties to help relieve the stress the more than 110,000 migrants that have arrived in the Big Apple since the spring.
New York City is currently caring for nearly 60,000 migrants.
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