Posted on 11/09/2024 8:21:13 AM PST by TigerClaws
A state court judge ruled that New York City cannot block Texas from sending buses with migrants, who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, to the Big Apple.
Judge Mary Rosado said in a ruling on Thursday the law New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sought to use to curb the flow of migrant buses into the city is unconstitutional, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
Rosado said it “violates a fundamental right — the right to travel,” and that states cannot police interstate travel of passengers solely on their socioeconomic background, according to AP. She said the city should set its sights on Congress for a solution, not impose an “antiquated, unconstitutional statute to infringe on an individual’s right to enter New York based on economic status.”
The court slapped down the lawsuit Adams filed against a dozen bus and transportation companies in January this year. In hopes of cracking down on the influx of migrant buses into New York City, Adams sued 17 charter companies and sought $708 million to cover the price of taking care of migrants sent over by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
Abbott started sending buses filled with migrants who crossed the southern border to cities run by Democrats in April 2022 to protest the way President Biden’s administration has handled the influx of people through the border.
“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams said at the time while Abbott denounced the lawsuit as “baseless.”
Prior to filing a lawsuit, Adams issued an emergency executive order in December last year to crack down on bus arrivals, requiring bus operators to provide notice at least 32 hours before their expected arrival to the city.
I expect “Edwards v. California” is mentioned in the opinion. A failed attempt to keep Oakies out of California during the Depression.
I would love to go back and find those posts that said what Abbott was doing at the outset of busing illegals wouldn’t make any difference.
Perfect. NY is a sanctuary city. Let them have it good and hard. When Trump becomes President, if he gets into lefal blocks with deportation, he should send the illegal immigrants to NY, Chicago, SF… to all the sanctuary cities until the court resolved the issue. They wouldn’t want it any other way.
Adams didn’t care one bit about the crisis he allowed it was all about receiving fed funds that Biden was glad to hand out for the agenda.
It help his parting night life $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Abbott and Paxton win again. Time for liberal New Yawk to take it’s fair share of the things.
Well if Mayor Adams plays ball with Trump, he can make all those problems go away.
Reroute ALL migrants to Massachusetts. The Mass governor said she will not cooperate when Trump tries to deport them. Th migrants will stay in Massachusetts because they know they will be deported if they leave. Sed the entire 12 million there and let them choke on their virtue BS. No fed funds for them. Let Mass taxpayers completely foot the bill for all migrants here
Yup!
The schadenfreudes just keep rolling in.
Well at one time the act of giving aid to or transporting an illegal was seriously Illegal. I have never figured out what happened to those federal laws.
Laws mean nothing if not enforced.
Why would any “sanctuary city” turn away such a bus???
Heh Heh Heh. And the hits just keep on coming. It’s only been four days and America is already great again.
They want them, they got ‘em.
Send all the migrants to Massachusetts. Then they can all sail back to Europe on Ships.
Maybe declare you are no longer a sanctuary state...and there really is no such option available in our government.
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