NEW YORK, CMC – Mayor Eric Adams has filed a US$708 million lawsuit towards 17 constitution bus and transportation firms as New York Metropolis seeks to recoup the funds it has incurred in offering emergency shelter and providers to Caribbean and different migrants.
Most of the migrant and asylum seekers arriving in New York from the Southern Border of the US are nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
Final week, Adams issued an govt order limiting how buses of asylum seekers despatched by Texas Governor Greg Abbott might arrive in New York Metropolis.
Adams mentioned Abbott has admitted to facilitating the transport of greater than 33,600 migrants to New York Metropolis since 2020 with out having the businesses transporting these migrants pay for continued care in violation of New York’s Social Companies Regulation.
The mayor informed a press convention that the lawsuit seeks to recoup the lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} incurred to take care of all these people, prices transferring ahead for any of these migrants nonetheless in New York Metropolis’s care, and prices for all those that are transported to New York Metropolis from Texas sooner or later as a part of Governor Abbott’s plan.
“New York Metropolis has and can all the time do our half to handle this humanitarian disaster, however we can not bear the prices of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams mentioned, including, “Immediately, we’re taking authorized motion towards 17 firms which have taken half in Texas Governor Abbott’s scheme to move tens of hundreds of migrants to New York Metropolis in an try to overwhelm our social providers system.
“These firms have violated state regulation by not paying the price of caring for these migrants, and that’s why we’re suing to recoup roughly US$700 million already spent to take care of migrants despatched right here within the final two years by Texas.
“Governor Abbott’s continued use of migrants as political pawns isn’t solely chaotic and inhumane however makes clear he places politics over individuals. Immediately’s lawsuit ought to function a warning to all who break the regulation this fashion.”
New York Metropolis’s chief lawyer, Barbadian-born Sylvia Hinds-Radix, mentioned this case is “a part of New York Metropolis’s effort to take care of a rising nationwide humanitarian disaster.
“This lawsuit seeks to enjoin these firms from taking part in an illegal scheme and maintain them totally accountable,” she mentioned.
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