Salina, N.Y. — A judge in Syracuse Tuesday afternoon approved two temporary orders blocking a Salina hotel from housing migrants and blocking New York City from transporting them to Onondaga County.
Onondaga County Supreme Court Judge Robert Antonacci approved a request from the Town of Salina to prevent the Candlewood Suites Syracuse Airport Hotel from receiving any migrants that New York City wanted to relocate to Onondaga County.
The judge also issued a temporary restraining order requested by the county that prevents New York City from sending any migrants to the hotel or anywhere in the county.
Antonacci issued the order after a closed-door remote meeting this afternoon with lawyers for New York City and Onondaga County, which filed its own suit to block the attempt to house the asylum seekers, according to a clerk in Antonacci’s office.