Rhode Island, to New Yorkers--“If you want to seek refuge in Rhode Island, you must be quarantined.”

"Rhode Island sending cops, National Guard to find New Yorkers seeking coronavirus refuge"

By Vincent Barone    

     "Any New Yorkers in there?

     Rhode Island plans to send the National Guard out  to knock door-to-door in an attempt to hunt down anyone who has arrived in the tiny state from New York City during the coronavirus pandemic. State police, meanwhile, have begun pulling over cars with New York state plates.

     Gov. Gina Raimondo said anyone traveling there from New York will be ordered to undergo a 14-day quarantine and could face fines or even jail time if they’re found to not comply.

     “Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Raimondo said at a news conference Friday. “That risk is called New York City.”

     (New York Governor) Andrew Cuomo said he was opposed to such restrictions, at least within the state.

     “I don’t like it socially or culturally,” Cuomo said during a radio appearance Friday on WAMC. “I don’t like what it says about us as one state, one family. Also, I don’t believe it’s medically justified.”

     In Rhode Island, Raimondo maintained she’s within her emergency powers to impose the aggressive measures and said she had consulted with state lawyers.
“I know it’s unusual. I know it’s extreme and I know some people disagree with it,” she said.

     “If you want to seek refuge in Rhode Island, you must be quarantined.”
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