New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a lawsuit against 17 bus and transportation companies helping to send asylum-seekers to the city as it deals with major budget issues surrounding the crisis.
The city is seeking $708 million in the lawsuit to cover costs for caring for migrants.
“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams said in a statement. "Today, we are taking legal action against 17 companies that have taken part in Texas Governor [Greg] Abbott’s scheme to transport tens of thousands of migrants to New York City in an attempt to overwhelm our social services system.
He continued, “These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants, and that’s why we are suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants sent here in the last two years by Texas.”
Why don’t they sue Texas?
Short answer is that it is always much easier to (successfully) sue a private party than a government entity. Also probably to deter the private companies from participating in human trafficking.
Part of it may also be to send a message. Texas isn’t going to stop, but transportation companies might be deterred knowing NYC will drag them through court if they participate in these crimes. Even if they are sure they will win in the end, getting involved in years long litigation over a controversial issue is not good for business.
States using states is hard, winds up immediately in the Supreme Court and they can’t really use their own state laws against each other basically. In this case NY can hold the bus companies over the fire of NY state law.
Also, New York City isn’t a state.
True enough, to even sue I think they may need to essentially get NY state on board with it as well.
Nah, X vs State is as valid as State Vs. X, for jurisdiction.
Like others have said though, other states don’t really have to follow your city laws, so it’s much easier to get the companies that do have to.
The SCOTUS does have original jurisdiction over interstate lawsuits of this sort, but Congress has also set up district and circuit courts to take up the slack before SCOTUS has to touch it–they process the cases first and then it goes up to the SCOTUS if there is a particularly impactful or unresolved question to decide.
In a move to equally piss off environmentalists, Greg Abbot is now contracting with Uber to drive 700 cars full of migrants per day to New Jersey…
Ok, but isn’t Texas paying for the tickets? I mean I’m sure the bus companies aren’t bussing people 3/4 the way across the country for free and those migrants aren’t likely to be able to afford a cross-country bus ticket.
So the bus companies are just accepting a fare and doing the services they were paid for, why should it be up to a private company to ensure citizenship before letting people on the bus?
It’s just ridiculous that Abbott is the one doing all of this and Private companies will pay the price, can we at least once let a politician pay the price for the shitty things they’ve done instead passing the blame elsewhere?Are you honestly suggesting that the bus companies might be unaware of what they’re doing? That seems preposterous to me. Greg Abbott isn’t walking up to the ticket window purchasing two tickets to NYC, these busses are specifically chartered for this purpose.
That would be a preposterous claim. We all know Abbott can’t walk.
I’m suggesting Greg Abbott should also pay some kind of price because he’s financing the whole deal.
I’m honestly kind of shocked so many people don’t seem to think this is his problem at all. Why should the bus companies pay ALL of the price when Abbott is behind the whole thing. But fuck it, I’m wrong and Abbott did nothing wrong I guess 🤷♂️He probably should but it’s much harder to make him pay a price, especially for NY to do.
The bus lines can sue Abbott or Texas then. The buses know what they are doing and have done, they aren’t innocent fodder in this, they are accessories. Play stupid games, win stupid fines.
HE ain’t paying shit. The taxpayers of Texas should take it out of his ass, even if he can’t feel it.
If NYC sues Texas and gets Abbot to stop, he’ll keep trafficking migrants to Chicago. If NYC sues bus companies and gets them to stop enabling this stunt, it will stop fir all such stunts
I have to say that as much of a piece of shit Abbot is this is helping to make his point. If New York can’t withstand the impact of these immigrants then why is Texas expected to?
We definitely need to fix the system to allow for more national absorption of the costs. Though ironically Texas wouldn’t go for that because, when you get down to it, the costs aren’t what they really care about…
Texas receives billions of federal dollars for border control. It’s already being absorbed nationally in that sense. New Yorkers already pay more taxes per capita than Texas does.
This is politically motivated hate theater. Texas is a fascist state, and they want to make sure everyone suffers for it.
So your solution is human trafficking?
They specifically called out Abbott as being a piece of shit for the trafficking, and I think they are making a great point. Is Texas being forced to shoulder an unfair burden here? Or do they receive adequate federal aid for the border and this is all just political posing?
The latter.
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I’m laughing at your down votes. What your day is completely true.
If it helps, I’m laughing at you because you are like a million years old and wasting time trolling on the internet.
The Boomer generation, ladies and gentlemen.
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