This latest action by Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams is remarkable. Even the leftist media are stunned at the action being taken by Mayor Adams in order to stop illegal aliens from reaching his sanctuary city. The ideological hypocrisy is off the charts.
Mayor Adams has brought a lawsuit [SEE pdf HERE] against the charter bus companies who are transporting the migrants who crossed the southern U.S. border. Adams is relying on a 19th century New York State law that prohibits anyone from assisting in the relocation of a person, to New York, who cannot sustain themselves.
From the lawsuit: “Section 149 of the New York Social Services Law requires that “[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought a needy person from out of state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge . . . shall be obligated to convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense.”
[Source pdf Link]
(Via CBS New York) – In a stunning and unexpected move to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from shipping busloads of asylum seekers to New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has filed a lawsuit against 17 charter bus companies used by the Lone Star State.
He wants the bus companies to reimburse the city for the hundreds of millions of dollars it’s cost to shelter them.
Just call it the Empire State strikes back, with a bold counter punch to Abbott.
“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the cost of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas, alone,” Adams said.
[…] The mayor sued the bus companies who, since the spring of 2022, have been used by Abbott to ship asylum seekers to New York, with officials showing them maps, giving them bar-coded bracelets with their destinations clearly marked, and then checked by drivers to make sure they land in the city.
The suit seeks $708 million to compensate the city for the cost of shelter, food and health care.
“These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants,” Adams said. (read more)
““[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought a needy person from out of state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge . . . shall be obligated to convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense.””
Or causes to be brought ? That would be Joe Biden.
Doesn’t a Sanctuary State or City invite unsupported law breakers to their State or City. New York.
Declaring yourself a “Sanctuary” jurisdiction knowingly “causes (illegals) to be brought” into your city.
Didn’t New York invite them? Also isn’t it against the U.S. Constitution to restrict travel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law#m
https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/can-states-restrict-travelers-other-states#m
A bit of a circular firing squad. No sympathy.
And when they announced
that they were a Sanctuary
City they placed no stipulations
or conditions.
Wouldn’t declaring your State a Sanctuary state be something that all state citizens should have a vote on?
It affects everyone living here in NY.
How do they do this without the people even knowing they are now a Sanctuary state?
I didn’t know about it till last year.
Is that even Legal?
They are being brought for the purpose of voting D.
Next case.
Well that and murdering people not voting D or Rino, uniparty.
By definition every single “asylum seeker” becomes a public charge. They allegedly are “fleeing persecution” and so the expectation is they did not bring or have access to private means, so they get subsidized housing, EBT, medical, cash allowances and all the rest. And since all the phony NGOs and “charity” groups coach them what to say and nobody ever checks, de facto they all hop onto the welfare gravy train. Nobody mentions they all somehow found money to pay for flights, ground transportation, thousands of dollars to smugglers, etc. BEFORE they got to the US. After they touch US soil all their expenses are covered by Uncle Joe.
They also need to conduct CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE against the BUSSES and everything within. Want to bet they would also capture a SH!+ TON of fentanyl in the process???
So what is the penalty for people who support bringing deadbeats into the country who then become a public charge?
It’s already in violation of federal law to do this. That would be impeachable.
Adams is relying on a 19th century New York State law that prohibits anyone from assisting in the relocation of a person, to New York, who cannot sustain themselves.
Funny that, Federal law requires that of legal immigrants before admittance.
LOLOLOL!!!!
Too right it does!!!
I won’t bore friends here with the labyrinthine maze we had to go through to get my British husband’s green card…or the expense…which included a visit to London from Wales to get him “certified fit for export” healthwise (as the doctor who examined him said). No contagious diseases…had to HAND CARRY his chest X-Ray from the UK to the States on the plane to present to some immigration jobsworth.
At the final US Embassy interview, the last thing he had to do was hold his right hand up and swear, on penalty of deportation, that he would not claim any benefits for a period of five years.
No problem…secured good employment a week after we arrived…
How infuriating to see illegal (and yes, criminal) aliens being ushered in, together with documented diseases so horrible that there is no question they are a terrible risk to everyone?
I’ll leave it to the imagination of Treepers to fill in the words we’ve used.
I too am an import from the UK back when Nixon was president. I had to answer a questionnaire that asked me if I was coming to the United states to become a Male/female prostitute, an alcoholic, a homosexual or a communist among a list of other things. Today I imagine that answering yes to those questions would allow one immediate entrance into the country, especially the questions concerning coming to the US to become a communist and a homosexual just like Obama.
Good grief…indeed.
They’d probably send Air Force One for you.
You.’d be given a lei at the airport by a rep of the DNC.
Watch it with the double entendres, Grandpa! 🤣🤣🤣
As did my friends from Cuba who came here in the late 50’s, followed all the laws and became citizens within 8 years. So now my best friend for the past 40+ years is first generation Cuban/American who only says she is American with some Cuban blood.
Making me smile here, Sherry…God bless your non hyphenated best friend/American sister 🇺🇸💕
Betsy,
Many years ago I sponsored a friend from Europe to immigrate here.
I had to sign forms that I would be legally responsible for them for a number of years, both monetarily and legally.
We had to prove that they had a job and a place to live.
It was roughly 3 years before my obligations were ceased and they became a citizen.
I guess we should have just brought them through the southern border.
I remember when that used to be the case. God bless you for being that kind of friend, scepticalcooper. I’m so glad things went smoothly for you because that is quite an undertaking and could have ended up badly.
The fact that I was an American myself I’m sure helped us through quickly. Applied in October, granted in August of the next year. But they put me under the microscope as well. Not something I would want to go through again.
I can relate as I remember carrying my chest x-ray as well as the medical authority’s sworn/signed letter that I was physically and mentally healthy. Five years later the interview with an immigration official for which I had studied in anticipation of the questions. He got me on an amendment to the constitution, but I was still deemed worthy to receive citizenship!
And we are the richer for your being here, swissik 🤗
True. My wife and I found that out when we adopted our daughter. It was interesting seeing the line at immigration.
While going through the process, we met a couple from Canada also adopting. Canada requires the child to be examined by Canadian doctors to determine if the child would be a burden on Canada’s health system.
Everyone in Canada is a burden to their health system.
Justine Turd-oh is a burden to all Canadiens….
As an adoptive mom of 3, I find that appalling…just believe that all children deserve a right to be included in a family…what jerks…
Considering the orphanages where these kids were, I would use much harsher language than jerks.
Our daughter never would have survived past age 3. She turns 26 in April.
God bless your family, sir 🙏🏻💕
….in truth, I know He has already done so…
There is an argument to be made that eric adams is unable to sustain himself without government assistance.
That is why our Immigration law mandates that the US Sponsoring citizen of a legal immigrant applicant is held responsible for the financial upkeep costs if the immigrant cannot support itself.
That was my experience when sponsoring a friend from Europe.
Mayorkas is the one who should be sued. But I digress…..
You misspelled “hanged for treason by the neck until dead.”
New York Sh!tty getting what it voted for.
Not bad enough yet for Voters.
NY elections are probably as rigged as California elections.
Don’t understand why this is still said. We have freedom of movement in this country. As long as people can move away from the pain, the pain will continue in the original spot. All that happens is the pain inflictors increase their power.
Queue Jimmie Acosta’s Statue of Liberty speech…
Acosta is “shockingly ahistorical.”
Love Stephan Miller.
He’d be even more effective if he kept a taser close by.
YES! He’s such an insufferable a**h0. I would’ve had him escorted out after the 3rd interruption. 3 strikes and you are out.
Quite insufferable to be sure.
The moppett would have closed her book of answers and “called a lid” after the first interruption….
Talking to these people (Acosta) is similar to talking to a fence post.
Wow. Thank you 2Laine. I’d never seen that before.
You are welcome! Wasn’t that fun?!
The only way to solve the immigration crisis is to spit on the memory of Emma Lazarus (a 15 year old girl, not a person elected to make policy), tell her memory to go to hell, stomp it to death, riot in its blood, war whoop to the skies, burn it to a crisp, piss on the ashes, salt the earth it lay dying in, and gas everyone who shows up to its funeral. Then state – proudly – better 1 billion huddled masses starve there than 100 protest here. And then give the middle finger to Acosta and all of the “independent, suburban moderates” whose first reaction to immigrants is “Oh those poor people.”
This new york mayor takes the word stupid to a level never seen before. You and your administration, made a decision to make new york a sanctuary city, the bus companies didn’t. If you’re going to sue anyone, sue yourselves, for being overly stupid. And by the way, stick that 19th century state law right up where the sun don’t shine, sideways.
Lawsuit dismissed!
The usual rigged NY Leftist judges will no doubt rubber stamp this case in the mayor’s favor. Evidence? Law? Common sense? They don’t need none of that!
Fat-titia James doesn’t have time for dat….she gonna git Trump instead !!
If the Affirmative Action Retarded Flunky Whore and his minions were capable of Root Cause Analysis, they would sue the Biden Junta for serially violating numerous laws while aiding & abetting — in a very RICO kind of way — the largest human, child sex, and drug trafficking operation in human history … and treason by ENCOURAGING and ALLOWING tens of millions of invading hordes of mostly military-age males, but mostly treason by ENCOURAGING and ALLOWING tens of millions of invading hordes of mostly military-age males.
I’ll bet the Big Guy has raised his cut to 20% with the Cartels …
Title 8 U.S.C. 1324 describes several crimes involving assisting, transporting, or harboring aliens entering the country illegally. Under this law, any of the following actions constitute a federal immigration crime [here’s one of the seven criminal statutes:]
“Conspiring with others to bring in aliens illegally/aiding/abetting under subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) makes it a federal crime to conspire with others to bring unauthorized aliens into the United States or assist them in doing so, whether for financial gain or not.“
The statute about anyone dying is particularly harsh.
So can the taxpayers sue the NGOs aiding and abetting these crimes?
I called gov Abbots office and suggested Rehobeth DE for illegals. Plenty of unused housing in the off season.
Lots of beach friends.
516-463-2000 is Abbots general switchboard, I was remiss in not including that. Greenville DE is where
Bidens primary residence is. Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island is loaded with Biden voters, good spot for illegals, lots of empty housing over the winter months.
Mayor Adams, go for Federal Kidnapping charges against Abbott and Biden!!!!! Would probably work!
Better yet, sue yourself and then launder the proceeds…wait, what?
Hey Mayor Adams,
Deal with it, beotch!
Choke on it!
The illegal aliens are sustained and supported by the illegitimate federal government using stolen taxpayer monies.
Ahhh, spread the wealth around. Have they done Seattle or Portland yet?
Make Martha’s Vineyard Erupt in Indignation Again!
And there’s plenty of room to paddle board on the lake at the estate of the Obama Presidential Climate Change (and Soon-To-Be-Underwater when the glaciers melt) Mansion …
Not onlyis it the off-season….but there’s at least one mansion on the island that has PLENTY of room for LOTS of ILLEGAL crimmigrants and gimmie-grants.
Portland metro has LOTS of illegal Venezuelans. My skilled Hispanic worker guys Do Not like them for many reasons: no skills(even as a helper), bad ‘you owe me’ attitude, thieves of the highest order.
Agree!
That is something that Americans
will soon be learning …
Just because the left looney
Liberals place the label
”Latino” they believe
that they are all the same 😆😂
Their ignorance ….💁🤷♀️💁🤷♀️
Affirmative Action in the Police Academy …just…doesn’t…work.
Adams is relying on a 19th century New York State law that prohibits anyone from assisting in the relocation of a person, to New York, who cannot sustain themselves.
But they can sustain themselves, because their Uncle Sam is paying them for everything!
Nice Chutzpah.
But of course, they want the aliens to stay in Texas where they can screw the vote up, not in a blue state that will be blue forever.
NY is a hostage state.
No state is truly Blue, they are just painted that way.
They’ll just do what they do in Chicago. They bus them into suburbs and then put them on commuter trains into the city.
Hmmm…for which Texas judge will he shop? Maybe Al Sharpton will assist with legal help…
It’s kind of funny to watch people who would rather die than admit that they might be wrong about something.
I imagine I’ll be long dead and gone by the time this happens, but I’d like to see the citizens of this bankrupt country rise up and either deport or kill all the trash that ran everything into the gutter over the last 45 years or so. I think that would be a really nice beginning to a rejuvenated and beautiful America. I mean, what good is a dog who just lays there thumping his tail while you take away his food, beat his master’s head in and rob the house? A good dog will tear you to shreds to protect what is rightfully his. America needs more good dogs. America needs a serious flea dip, too, but let’s start with protecting the house first.
I’m assuming he will sue the airlines (and government that pays for those flights) that are flying illegals into NY.
Send them by plane.
He didn’t sued the NGO’s and billionaires who funded it?
“He wants the bus companies to reimburse the city for the hundreds of millions of dollars it’s cost to shelter them.”
Perhaps Adams’ underlying intent is to slow or stop bus companies from transporting “asylum seekers” but in practical terms he is suing private corporations to defer the costs of his public policies.
A successful lawsuit would allow Adams to continue supporting and funding mass migration while also further nationalizing segments of the American economy.
I see a couple of problems:
1) NYC is a sanctuary city
2) Eric Adams illegally bused illegal immigrants from NYC to Orange Count, NY.
So why doesn’t he sue Governor Abbott who contracted the buses and organized the transport of illegal aliens deep into our country?
Because Abbott is doing Adam’s Communist Comrades’ will in dispersing the horrid horde across our land?
Or because the answer to such a suit is that the BlightBringer’s Puppet MalAdministration is the responsible party and would be drawn into the lawsuit by Texas?
Great work, Mr Mayor. I hope Abbott gets run into the ground. Shame on him for being part of this human smuggling operation
This puts Joe Biden right in the cross hairs.
Who is Texas going to sue then?
Maybe the Mayor should demand the Federal Government stop the invasion, or ask for the city’s Sanctuary policy be revoked. But that would be admitting fault.
Eric Adams needs to sue Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, and the Democrat White House and Senate for whatever wet dreams he envisions.
New York got what they voted for. Adams got what he promised to achieve. And now it’s a problem?
There’s that lack of critical thinking, again. Here’s an idea: Send the bill to Mexico and see how that works out, eh, Eric?
Democraps are so predictable, hollow, gutless, incompetent, incoherent, and ignorant of their own statements/history/claims, and avoidance of responsibility for their actions.
Every aspect of this illegal invasion belongs entirely to Democrats. Period. No question. “The Responsibility is Settled”.
Pay Up, NY, you asked for it, now you got it. Asking any Republican to fund this nonsense is an abdication of Democrat responsibility. Choke on it. You deserve it.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/10/flashback-heres-eric-adams-immigration-rhetoric-before-he-had-to-deal-with-illegal-migrant-surge/
This is wrong that New York City is carrying the weight of a national problem.”
so suck it up buttercup! Spread them out and divide them with the other “designated sanctuary cities.” Obiden is bringing us all together.
Violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Mayor cannot interfere with the transportation of passengers, cannot impede interstate commerce. Federal lawsuit.
Ow I’m really pissed
Ship them to New Orleans and let Amtrak take them to NYC.
30 hoursDaily Departure
Convenient trips from the Big Apple to the Big Easy. With service from New York City to New Orleans, the Crescent gives travelers a unique window to the beauty and heritage of the American South.
Send them all South via Trebuchet.
They won’t come back.
Looks like something straight out of “Monty Python & The Holy Grail”…
These are indeed siege engines of the knights who say ni!
LOL
This brings back memories! My daughter was part of a Latin club that took part in competitions building these and seeing which ones could hurl stuff the farthest.
How about the early morning (AM) flights to Westchester Co. Arpt.?
I would give $10 trillion dollars if ONE f’ing red state governor would think outside the box.
The turd in Texas, the worthless worm Abbott, could sue Catholic Charities, the Red Cross, and about 100 other NGO’s for their roles in the invasion of the hordes. But republicans are dumb.
Not dumb, compromised and corrupt.
It’s amazing how fast Liberals can enforce immigration laws, isn’t it?
Build the wall, Mayor Adams! Build the wall!
And while you’re at it, let’s do a little e-verify!
Lol
Really, if you’re a liberal in NYC, you need to now have the five boroughs declare themself Sanctuary Bus Stops and give bus companies transporting illegals amnesty from Adams.
Huh. So “sanctuary” in reality only applies to other cities? Hypocrisy? What hypocrisy?
Leftists are happy to be sanctuaries, as long as the rest of the country pays for it.
They are happy to be sanctuaries as long as no one actually uses the sanctuary.
Abbott is a RINO through and through. Almost seems like this is “all part of the plan”.
Use a Red state’s funds to disperse and position for battle the illegal invaders one has spectacularly deliberately failed to prevent entry to?
Absolutely part of the plan.
Didn’t Abbotts brother Jeb! Bush say illegal immigration is an “act of love”?
Yes. Please clap. 😁
Biden and the Leftists all sing in unison that Texas cannot enforce their own border because the Constitution prohibits a State from taking authority away from exclusive powers held by the Feds, such as immigration. I am listening for the utter silence when somebody mentions NYC is attempting to regulate Interstate Commerce (also held to be within the exclusive authority of the Feds.)
{Note this immigration power is never specifically mentioned in the Constitution but Interstate Commerce is}
The power of the states to declare an emergency and defend their borders against foreign invasion in the absence of a robust Federal response is absolutely in the Constitution.
This is why they had to keep Kari out of office, she would have shown the entire nation what the states not only have power to do but should have been doing for decades if not centuries.
Kari would have popped the bubble of illusion that we can address our political responsibilities and concerns by looking to DC alone, completely overlooking the powers and responsibilities of the states, a deliberate suppression of understanding propagated since at least the 17th Amendment, and likely even earlier but that move sealed the fate of the nation by gutting the role of the state governments and decimating citizens’ interest in the doings of their own states, who took the darkness to do terrible things that further undermined our Republic.
Guess we should find out pretty quickly if the bus companies have the balls to support the man that has made them millionaires? But he can’t sue our governor, because he already knows our governor doesn’t care about political lawsuits. I have to admit I am wondering when he is going to sue Joe Biden over this?
Come on Eric man, diversity is your strength, It’s who you are.
You don’t have an “our democracy” without freeloaders.
This case likely won’t hold up, unless the city can show that it has enforced this particular statute consistently since its enactment.
I’ve seen the NYS Court of Appeals essentially invalidate laws for non-enforcement.
Nice.
Governor Adams has been red pilled.
He has met the enemy and it is his own party.
Ha!
He’s still a Commie!
Is he suing the MalAdminstration? No? The only thing Red about Adams is the Commie Flag he wears.
Not much of sanctuary I guess
Has he called ICE?
Is he rounding up the invaders?
Still a sanctuary for criminality, he’s just trying to impose it on the rest of the country as well.
brought a needy person from out of state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge
But what about all the other pronouns? Clearly a sexist law.
Maybe Mayor Adams could take some lessons from the Martha’s Vineyard residents – give them a nice meal, an I love NY tee shirt and then send them to Cape Cod where they might have some resources to share,
Haha,ha😅,get a little bit of mojo!! Sanctuary city doesn’t seem to nice now does it,,,,,…😁
Case dismissed due to lack of standing.
the elephant in the room… e adam’s actions seals the deal… he’s a racist…