Mayor Eric Adams (D) accused several Texas-based charter companies and buses of failing to cover illegal immigration-related costs when transporting border crossers and illegal aliens to New York City by bus. is suing the company.
President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) releases about 5,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior each day, but about 34,000 are under contract with Gov. Greg Abbott (R). Arrived from Texas to New York City by bus.
The immigrant bus plan has been widely successful for Abbott, allowing Texans to save on record numbers of illegal immigration to sanctuary cities like New York City, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles under the Biden administration. Ta.
On Thursday, Adams and New York Gov. Cathy Hochul (D) announced that Texas would file a lawsuit against 17 charter bus companies that contracted to transport border crossers and illegal aliens to New York City. did.
Adams says bus companies should cover about $708 million in New York City illegal immigration costs, press release state:
Today's lawsuit seeks to recover hundreds of millions of dollars spent caring for all these people. These include the future costs of immigrants still in New York City custody and the costs of all future immigrants transferred from Texas to New York City as part of Governor Abbott's plan. [Emphasis added]
Adams said Abbott's immigrant bus plan is an “attempt to overwhelm the social services system” and violates state law that bus companies “don't pay for the cost of caring for these immigrants.” denounced.
“…That's why we're suing to recover the nearly $700 million already spent caring for immigrants sent here from Texas over the past two years,” Adams said. Ta. “Governor Abbott’s continued use of immigrants as political pawns is not only chaotic and inhumane, but reveals that he puts politics over people. Today’s Lawsuit should serve as a warning to all those who violate the law in this way.”
Similarly, Hochul said bus companies, not the Biden administration, should “pay for the cost of protecting these people, and not just pass that cost on to hardworking New Yorkers.”
From April 2022 to December 2023, New Yorkers will provide housing, food and clothing to the roughly 165,000 border crossers and undocumented immigrants released into the interior of the United States by the Biden administration. They say they were forced to spend $1 billion.
As a result, Adams is cutting spending by 20 percent to serve border crossers and illegal aliens and cutting city services for New Yorkers.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
