Obama Appointee Hands Down Devastating Ruling For New Yorkers After Eric Adams Suggests Migrants Stay In Residences

Judge Nelson Roman of the Southern District of New York has ruled in favor of granting an injunction preventing the upstate New York counties of Orange and Rockland from barring illegal immigrants from relocating there away from the city. 

According to The New York Post, Judge Roman decided in favor of four illegal immigrant plaintiffs Tuesday and ruled that executive orders issued by Rockland and Orange counties to stem the tide of illegal immigration surging from the overwhelmed city violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. These rights have been applied by a 1953 Supreme Court ruling in Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei.

The four illegal immigrant plaintiffs, Sidi Mouhamed Deide, Adama Sy, Abdallahi Salem, and Mouhamed Said Maloum Din argued that the county orders were "intentionally discriminatory because they expressly classify persons based on national origin and alienage, and race, therefore violating their equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment," according to the Post citing the decision.

Roman wrote in the 51-page ruling, "Plaintiffs argue that the EOs implicate their fundamental right to move freely within New York, as protected under the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause, by banning transport and housing of migrants within Rockland and Orange Counties." 

"While it does not bar all travel or residency in the County for migrants or asylum seekers, it is clear that the Rockland County EO does impede travel to the county for the migrants and asylum seekers," the judge ruled.

In May, NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D) publicly announced that the city would begin to bus illegal immigrants to counties in upstate New York to relieve overcrowding in city homeless shelters. The announcement set off a cascade of outrage throughout the Hudson Valley and the two counties in particular, the first two to receive the illegal immigrants. 

According to The Daily Caller, Judge Roman was appointed by former President Barack Obama.

Reportedly the State Supreme Court admitted an injunction from Rockland County on the basis that using hotels as shelters violated zoning ordinances. Orange County similarly won a judgment but only after a group of illegal immigrants was housed at a Newburgh, NY hotel.

Judge Roman ensured that the existing restraining orders still stand, writing, "[T]he Court’s decision herein does not mean to interfere with the temporary restraining orders that are in effect and that were issued in state court proceedings, described above, concerning the interpretation and applicability of state and local laws."

A spokesman for Orange County's Executive, Republican Steve Neuhaus told the Post in a statement that the county "disagrees" with the ruling. "However, the important result of that ruling is that nothing really changes as a practical matter at the present time. The federal court made very clear that it was not disturbing the temporary restraining order that the County obtained against the City of New York preventing the City from sending its homeless to Orange County hotels."

He added, "The court noted that the County’s allegations that the City’s program of sending its homeless to Orange County is a matter of State law that must be resolved in State court. The County’s temporary restraining order against the City will remain in effect at least until June 21st when the State Supreme Court will issue a ruling on the continuing nature of the restraining order."

The court order comes just days after Mayor Adams suggested that New Yorkers should begin to house migrants in personal residences, thus making the move to force illegal aliens into the suburbs even more worrying.

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