Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has filed a lawsuit against New York City after the city filed a $708 million lawsuit against 17 charter bus and transportation companies involved in transporting migrants from Texas to New York City. The city's mayor, Eric Adams, predicted he would “lose a lot” in court.
“This lawsuit is completely without legal basis, and the mayor will lose big for this very specific reason. And that's because everyone who's taking the bus to New York, or who's planning to go to New York, already has a Biden ticket.” They are authorized by the administration to be in the United States, which is legally a country,” Abbott told Fox News' Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”
Abbott called the New York lawsuit a “political statement” and argued that the Biden administration's immigration policies give immigrants “the legal right to travel anywhere they want to go in the United States.”
“The mayor's lawsuit violates the U.S. Constitution on several counts, and the mayor will continue to lose heavily. The mayor will be forced to pay legal fees for someone else to defend against the lawsuit. I wish.'' He said.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott appears on FOX News Sunday. (Fox News)
Last week, Adams announced a lawsuit against 17 bus companies, citing “reckless political maneuvering by the State of Texas.” Mr. Abbott is not named as a defendant in the case.
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“New York City has and will continue to do its part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the cost of reckless political maneuvering by Texas alone,” Adams said in a statement. Stated. “Today we are taking legal action against 17 companies that participated in Texas Governor Abbott's plan to transport tens of thousands of immigrants to New York City in an attempt to overwhelm the social welfare system.”
Instead of suing the bus company, Abbott said Adams should sue the Biden administration over the influx of migrants into the city.
“He needs to sue Joe Biden, not these bus companies, because it's Joe Biden and Joe Biden's policies that are causing the massive influx of millions of people into the United States. , because a lot of them want to go to New York,” he said. .
NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 2: Immigrants gather outside the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants are camped out trying to secure temporary housing on August 2, 2023 in New York City. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Texas has bused more than 33,000 migrants to New York since August 2022, but local leaders in the border state say they believe immigration has reached crisis levels. There is. The influx continues, with December setting a new record for more than 300,000 migrants encountered at the southern border in a single month.
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On Sunday, Abbott sent eight letters to the Biden administration outlining five ways to end the immigration crisis, including one he personally delivered to President Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The response was: “Absolutely nothing.”
More than 1,000 immigrants are waiting to enter the United States from Juarez, Mexico. (FOX News Digital/John Michael Raasch)
“I provided eight letters to the Biden administration, including the President and Mayorkas, and I personally delivered the letter to President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas during their appearance in El Paso, Texas, and listed five things they can do to help eradicate them. “It's a crisis at the border. Shannon, in response to all eight of these letters, we haven't heard anything from the Biden administration,” he told Bream.
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Texas was hit with a Justice Department lawsuit last week over the state's new immigration law, which allows local law enforcement officers to arrest individuals suspected of entering the country illegally, but Abbott said it was “an act that Congress passed. We're just enforcing the law.” The law would allow state judges to order illegal immigrants to be deported.
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“Texas law is consistent with federal law, so that's one reason it avoids federal preemption claims. Second, because the federal government refuses to enforce the law, preemption is “They don't enforce the laws passed by Congress, so the laws we pass just enforce the laws passed by Congress,” Abbott said.
