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Just in via press release:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix today announced a lawsuit against 17 charter bus and transportation companies that seeks to recoup all costs New York City has incurred providing emergency shelter and services to migrants transported by the charter bus companies — totaling at least approximately $708 million in the last 20 months.
Since the spring of 2022, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has admitted to facilitating the transport of more than 33,600 migrants to New York City without having the companies transporting those migrants pay for the cost of continued care in violation of New York’s Social Services Law.
Today’s suit seeks to recoup the hundreds of millions of dollars incurred to care for all these individuals, costs moving forward for any of those migrants still in New York City’s care, and costs for all those who are transported to New York City from Texas in the future as part of Governor Abbott’s plan.
“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,” said Mayor Adams.
“Today, we are taking legal action against 17 companies that have taken part in Texas Governor Abbott’s scheme to transport tens of thousands of migrants to New York City in an attempt to overwhelm our social services system. 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.
“Governor Abbott’s continued use of migrants as political pawns is not only chaotic and inhumane but makes clear he puts politics over people. Today’s lawsuit should serve as a warning to all those who break the law in this way.”
“Governor Abbott continues to use human beings as political pawns, and it’s about time that the companies facilitating his actions take responsibility for their role in this ongoing crisis,” said New York Governor Kathy Hochul. “If they are getting paid to break the law by transporting people in need of public assistance into our state, they should be on the hook for the cost of sheltering those individuals — not just passing that expense along to hard-working New Yorkers. I’m proud to support the mayor’s lawsuit.”
The 17 defendants named in today’s lawsuit knowingly implemented Governor Abbott’s publicly articulated plan without any regard for the individuals they were transporting or an effort to help manage this humanitarian crisis.
Rather, it has been “bad faith” conduct — from which the bus and transportation companies are profiting — to execute Texas’s plan to sow chaos and shift the traditional cost of migration at the southern border to New York City and other cities across the country.
Over the last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has shipped thousands of migrants to suburbs just outside of New York City and Chicago in order to evade newly-enacted rules about advance notice of their arrival. As you can see above, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is onboard.
NEW: NYC Mayor Eric Adams is suing 17 charter companies in Texas for busing migrants to the city.
“We are suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants sent here in the last two years by Texas.” pic.twitter.com/f86f9SzrQC
— Jordan Elder (@JordanElderTV) January 4, 2024