Some migrants from filled-to-capacity New York City are likely to be housed at the University of Buffalo in the coming weeks.

Spectrum News 1 reporter Zach Fink tweeted late Monday a source in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration had said the administration identified 1,500 total beds at SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook and SUNY Albany as potential temporary migrant housing.

The dorms would need to be free by August so college students can move back in. An announcement could be made next week, according to the Spectrum report.

Twenty-five counties throughout the state, including some counties led by Democrat county executives, have adopted a state of emergency to prevent migrants from being sent. Erie County is the only county in the eight-county Western New York region that hasn’t passed a state of emergency over a possible migrant influx.

Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel declared a state of emergency a week ago. The declaration prohibits other municipalities from bringing and housing people in the county; prohibits hotels and motels from housing immigrants without a license; and requires any municipalities that might bring migrating or asylum-seeking people into Chautauqua County to ensure they will be fully cared and paid for. The state of emergency went into effect Thursday and will remain for 30 days at which time it may be extended.

“Over the past several months, thousands of asylum seekers have been arriving in (New York) city, which is now so overwhelmed that it is trying to move these individuals to other counties that do not have the infrastructure to care for them, especially since social services funding is not available to undocumented individuals. While we support the families who have already migrated to our county, we lack the services and funding required to assist additional individuals,” he said.

During a news conference Monday, Hochul called on the federal government to change its work rules for asylum seekers so they can be legally employed while their asylum cases are built. She also called had harsh words for county executives who are declaring a state of emergency to keep their counties from housing migrants.

“And I also want to say to parts of our country and our state who are enacting bigoted policies based on fear and intimidation, join us,” Hochul said. “Join us. Let people know the true story of what New York is. It was not putting out those signs, even though Grandpa saw ‘Irish need not apply.’ Eventually those signs came down and people were welcoming.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a judge Tuesday to let the city suspend its long-standing “right to shelter” obligation, saying officials are no longer able to house every homeless person because of the arrival of tens of thousands of international migrants.

The right to shelter has been in place for more than four decades in New York, after a court in 1981 required the city to provide temporary housing for every homeless person who asks for it. Other big U.S. cities don’t have such a rule.

“It is in the best interest of everyone, including those seeking to come to the United States, to be upfront that New York City cannot single-handedly provide care to everyone crossing our border,” Adams said in a statement. “Being dishonest about this will only result in our system collapsing, and we need our government partners to know the truth and do their share,”

New York’s shelter system is now filled to record levels. The city says it is currently providing housing for 93,000 people. In recent months it has rented out entire hotels to house the influx of migrants, at great cost. It has also put cots in schools, and temporarily housed people in tents, a cruise ship terminal and a former police academy building.

In recent weeks, the city has begun paying to house some asylum seekers at hotels in counties north of the city, but that action has stoked anger and accusations that the city was dumping its problems on other communities.

In the initial months of the crisis, Adams heralded the “right to shelter” mandate as an emblem of his city’s empathy toward asylum seekers. Many of the first arrivals were bused to New York by the governors of Republican-led border states including Texas and Arizona who were trying to bring attention to the border crisis. The governors also targeted Washington, D.C., another city with a Democratic mayor.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report