From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Monday, May 15th.

After a weekend with so many developments in the story of today's asylum seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean

in the New York area and nationally. From the don't believe the pundits file, the expiration on

Friday morning of the Title 47 COVID border restrictions were supposed to produce a massive

new, Title 42, forgive me, a massive new wave of asylum seekers. Instead,

according to the reports this morning, the flow actually diminished by about half. So here's

Governor Hockel on Thursday saying what she's doing and what she was led to believe.

Looking at state properties, I've talked to the federal properties and, you know, trying to stand up more sites because, you know, it's been managed, but now we have this enormous influx of individuals that we anticipate will be coming unless something dramatically different starts happening at the border. Well, something dramatically different did start happening at the border, at least so far,

but that still means thousands of people crossing the border every day seeking asylum,

another 5,000 or so arriving in New York City just this month, according to Mayor Adams,

and backlash like this against housing any of them in hotels in the suburbs from Orange County

Executive Steve Newhouse. Because there's counties around the state that said, you know what,

I got an empty dormitory. I got some empty stuff. I'll take you tomorrow. But they just need to

put these guys together. So this way you're bringing these folks to a welcoming non-hostile environment.

I don't know what we're getting into here.

So I guess he's calling his county, Orange County, a hostile environment to people seeking asylum

and embracing it, Rockland County's executive.

And even the city of Yonkers, very diverse city, as most of you know, borders the Bronx,

borders New York City, also pushing back hard on places the mayor has found for individuals and

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