GOSHEN – Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus is going to let the Department of Homeland Security that he is opposed to converting a former warehouse in Chester into an ICE detention center.
The Republican County Executive said he has not been notified about the possibility and no one in the county is in favor of it.
“I understand why they want to be in Orange County. Stewart Airport, if they round up individuals and put them on the planes and send them back from where they come from, I get what they are trying to do, but it hasn’t been brought up to us with a plan and everyone that has been rolled out has been completely catastrophic for the local community,” he said. “So, the last thing we want to do is do that.”
Creating an immigration center in Chester would be “a disaster” for Orange County, Neuhaus said.
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