Poloncarz said his reversal came after learning the facilities are not safe, adding that Erie County’s "trust and good faith has been betrayed."
As is generally the case when the rest of the state deals with The City. Mostly it’s not malice aforethought, just colossal parochialism, as City folk fail to realize that they are not the center of the universe for anyone beyond their borders.
The county executive said DocGo, a contractor hired by the Adams Administration to provide services to the DocGo had been the subject of complaints even before the latest incident.
"I demanded [New York City] Mayor [Eric] Adams pause all further transportation of asylum seekers to our community until such time as we can resolve all security issues," Poloncarz said during a Saturday presser posted by Spectrum News.
"He agreed and informed me they will not send any additional persons to Erie County at this time. We also discussed the need for a new and improved security plan."
About 540 asylum seekers have been brought to Erie County, and officials are now calling on the asylum seekers to be removed from the hotels.
Authorities said an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
was arrested Friday and is being charged with sex abuse and unlawful imprisonment after allegedly sexually assaulting an employee inside the Best Western hotel in Cheektowaga near Buffalo Airport.
The bust came just days after another migrant from Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south..., who also arrived from New York City, was charged with raping a woman in front of a 3-year-old child, at another Cheektowaga hotel.
"Erie County opened its arms to try to welcome these new Americans. Unfortunately we believe we can’t make the program, as it is presently run, sustainable without significant changes," Poloncarz said.