New York City Mayor Eric Adams filed a lawsuit on Thursday, seeking over $700 million from Texas charter bus companies to recoup expenses related to providing shelter, food, and healthcare for migrants transported to the city.
The lawsuit covers both past and anticipated future costs for migrants already in the city and those potentially transported later. The mayor’s office revealed that over 33,600 migrants have already been transported to the city from Texas. It targets 17 companies involved in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s alleged scheme to transport large numbers of migrants to overwhelm New York City’s social services system.
In a statement, Adams emphasized New York City’s commitment to managing the humanitarian crisis but pointed out the city’s inability to bear the financial burden of what he deemed as “reckless political ploys” from the state of Texas.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also blasted Abbott for authorizing a flight of immigrants sent from Texas to his city without any warning while lamenting over the lack of resources from the federal government to tackle the migrant crisis in the United States.
Recently, the Republican governor had flown migrants into Chicago, where they’d been placed in hotels and provided aid from city officials. On Sunday, Johnson said in a post on X that a private plane originating in San Antonio, Texas, “landed at the Rockford/Chicago airport carrying 350 asylum seekers.”
“There was no communication from Texas, and the City of Chicago was alerted by authorities in Rockford regarding the flight,” Johnson wrote. “Upon landing, asylum seekers were placed on buses chartered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and dropped in various surrounding suburbs, left to find their way to the city. This is the second recorded instance of the Texas governor transporting asylum seekers via private plane.”
Johnson’s post via X sparked criticism from mostly conservatives online. Political…
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