New York sues companies that transported migrants to the city for $708 million

The mayor’s administration New York, Eric Adamsfiled a lawsuit this Thursday against 17 charter bus companies that have been transporting migrants in Texas to the city and demands US$708 million from them to cover the costs of their care.

The legal action comes after yesterday the mayor warned that they were evaluating all possibilities of confronting the action of bus companies, which are taking migrants to the neighboring state of New Jersey so that they can travel from there to New Yorkand thus escape an Adams executive order that imposes precise times and days for charter trips from migrants.

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The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbottsent about 33,600 migrants to New York in the last 20 months without the companies transporting them having paid the cost of that service, Adams said in a statement.

“Today, our Administration filed suit against 17 companies that participated in Governor Abbott’s plan to transport tens of thousands of immigrants to the city in an attempt to overwhelm our social services system.“, he indicated in a video that accompanies the text.

The Democratic mayor also reiterated that the city can no longer “bear the costs of the state of Texas”.

The action filed by New York seeks to recover the money invested so far in shelter, food and education for children and other forms of assistance provided to them, as well as the money that the city will spend on the more than 65 thousand immigrants who are under your care and the investment it will make in other Texas transports in the future as part of Abbott’s plan.

Adams explained that shipping companies are violating the State Social Services Law which states that companies that intentionally transport people in need of shelter and services into the city, as part of a bad faith scheme, must pay those costs.

“The law is clear: by participating in this reckless scheme, these bus companies assume responsibility for those costs“said the director of the city’s Legal Department, Lisa Zornberg.

The mayor has warned on several occasions that the arrival of more than 160,000 immigrants since April 2022, of which 68,000 are under the care of the city, has created a humanitarian and fiscal crisis that will lead to that by mid-2025 if 12,000 have been spent million dollars.

The continuous flow of immigrants, both sent by Texas and arriving on their own from other states, led the city to rent hotels to serve as shelter, to set up tents, to adopt measures such as limiting the time in shelters (both for singles and for families). with children) and finally establish specific days and times for the arrival of buses.

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In spring 2022, Abbott began sending buses with immigrants to cities with Democratic mayors, first washington and then to New York, to, according to the Republican, distribute the immigration burden that his state faces due to the policies of the Presidential Administration, Joe Biden.

It also sent immigrants to Boston (Massachusetts), Denver (Colorado), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and The angels (California).

The governor of New York, also a Democrat Kathy Hochulindicated in turn that “It is time to allow companies to take responsibility for their role in this ongoing crisis.”, making it clear that he supports the mayor’s initiative.

Source: Elcomercio

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