Suffolk, Riverhead named in NYC suit over migrant relocation

📅 Published: August 19, 2025

📰 Source: newsday_com

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An unknown number will stay anyway, joining an estimatedmore than 10 million people who make up what the government calls the “unauthorized immigrant population”— barring some radical change in U.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy. “I’d say ICE simply doesn’t have enough enforcement resources to be able to find everyone who is here illegally and pick them up, so some percentage of people will be able to live out their lives in the United States, even though they don’t have legal status,” said Cornell Law School professor Stephen W.

Yale-Loehr, who co-authored the treatise“Immigration Law & Procedure”and also codirects a clinic at Cornell to help people apply for asylum.

Relatively few completethe asylum-application process, a legal path to citizenship, and thus remain in the United States without legal status.

And of those who do seek asylum, even fewer will have their claims granted by immigration courts — after they have spent years legally living and working in the country while waiting for the legal process to unfold.

WHAT TO KNOWMany migrants pass the initialasylumscreening at the border, but a much tougher standard exists for those who wish to stay permanently. “Very few” of the tens of thousands of migrantswho have been bused to New York City have formally applied for asylum, according to the Adams administration.

Eventually some of the migrantswill stay in the country without legal status.

Since last spring, more than 76,000 migrants have arrived in New York City — more than ICE’s 72,177 deportations nationwide in all of the 2022 fiscal year, according to the agency’s latestannual report.

In that period, the Border Patrolencounteredover 2. 2 million foreign nationals crossing illegally, the largest in its history.

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The city’s new arrivals come mostly from Latin America, after having crossed the U.