Migrants New York: NYC mayor announces $708M lawsuit against bus companies carrying migrants to city

NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a suit against 17 charter autobus and proscription companies bringing migrants to the city.

The metropolis is seeking $708 cardinal to screen the costs incurred implicit the past 20 months for providing exigency structure and services to migrants transported by the charter autobus companies.

"New York City has and volition ever bash our portion to negociate this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot carnivore the costs of reckless governmental ploys from the authorities of Texas alone," said Adams successful a connection released Thursday. "Today, we are taking ineligible enactment against 17 companies that person taken portion successful Texas Governor Abbott's strategy to transport tens of thousands of migrants to New York City successful an effort to overwhelm our societal services system."

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Thursday's suit sets retired to recoup the hundreds of millions to screen the costs for immoderate of those migrants inactive successful New York City's care, and costs for each those who are transported to New York City from Texas successful the aboriginal arsenic portion of Gov. Abbott's plan.

"These companies person violated authorities instrumentality by not paying the outgo of caring for these migrants, and that's wherefore we are suing to recoup astir $700 cardinal already spent to attraction for migrants sent present successful the past 2 years by Texas," Adams' connection continued. "Governor Abbott's continued usage of migrants arsenic governmental pawns is not lone chaotic and inhumane but makes wide helium puts authorities implicit people. Today's suit should service arsenic a informing to each those who interruption the instrumentality successful this way."