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)
Sanctums of Leftist FOOLS. Their multi-culti experiment is blowing up in their faces
These mayors and governors are stupid! Killing the messengers!
Grumpy, yes, while as well probably concerned about breathing. Most intersting optic I suppose, but anyone with an IQ, is now slowly gravitation
to the Consitutionally leaning MAGA public rally.
Just like Alvin Bragg, Adams is too stupid to have come up with this on his own.
These types of lawfare attacks come from the David Pflouff (sp?) types.
And Letitia Jame make three.
Do you think it’s a racial thing?
Question for Mayor Adams and
the other low IQ ….Sanctuary Cities.
Did YOUR city NOT advertise to the
World that your city was a Sanctuary city?
Did your city actually invite these
invaders into our country and your
city?
You placed no stipulations or
conditions when
you became a Sanctuary City.
🤷♀️💁🤷♀️💁
Evil intent? Bad faith? … for shipping illegals to a BIG multi-culti city where they can find work for substandard pay and keep the costs down for high paid New Yorkers!? That’s not Bad Faith … it’s keeping the faith … the Faith of the Democrat Left and The Chamber of Commerce!
Hire me to defend the case … I’ll even discount my fees to $315.00/hr.
A job awaits the mayor at harvard lawfare school as a tenured janitor at least.
I can imagine that even the Janitors are tired of the filth that permeates Harvard.
“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.”
But the concept of a sanctuary city is to provide refuge to “needy persons from out of state.” (Illegal aliens would meet this definition.) So, the “Sanctuary City” laws passed by New York supersede section 149 and render it void. How can you provide refuge if you are going to obligate private citizens to “support him at his own expense”? The Sanctuary City laws are intended to cover those expenses so that the city taxpayers provide the support, rather than private individuals.
Texas should ship them to just outside the newyork city limits and point them toward nyc.
I thought I read that they are dropping them in NJ at the train station….to NYC.
They did!
Should we remind NY what the Statue of Liberty says (since the left brings that up when the right complains about illegal immigration):
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”[
This ^^^^^
Tomorrow’s headline: “Elon Musk to provide State of Texas with bus fleet to comply with New York State law.”
For Tesla’s Elon Musk, self-driving bus is the next frontier
https://thenextweb.com/news/the-worlds-first-self-driving-bus-fleet-will-soon-hit-scotlands-streets
🙂
Well, that bus trip, if modeled on the Tesla vehicles, will go a couple hundred miles then stopfor a charge, if station is available. Length of stop, illegals milling around…pack up the bus, 250 more miles to next charging station. Same routine. Who benefits?
NYC is now a sanctuary for sanctuary cities, providing a safe refuge for sanctuary cities that are overrun by illegal aliens seeking sanctuary.
Ha Ha…..Say goodbye to the Convention revenue….
It seems to me, using this law, he should be suing President Biden or DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
He should sue the airlines that the federal government uses to fly them in to new york. Per Ben Bergquam of RaV who questions the illegals waiting in line, they know where they are going before they are even processed into the country.
I’m curious, where does he think all these illegal locusts should go if not to sanctuary cities?
Red states, for the purposes of turning them blue.
So if someone rode the subway to rob a bank can the bank sue the subway?
Only the engineer.
No, just the company that built the subway car.
It is not a crisis in the “random crisis, act of God model”, it is a plan by one political party, with hooks into the other political party to take down the United States of America.
The Cloward-Piven strategy was developed in 1966 by Americans Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven – both sociologists and political activists. The Cloward-Piven strategy focused on overloading the United States public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis, which would ultimately lead to collapse. Source CAIRCO.ORG
Where is Sundance?
Who took over the website?
We all notice the much fewer comments on the site. Doubts abound,
I wondered the same. Maybe related to the holidays, but seems quite unusual. If makes me feel quite uncomfortable.
Yep, there are a lot less comments here. I wonder why?
Because the page “reloads” and deletes your content just as you were about to press “post comment” button. (?)
Yes….I’m finally using Brave now and the reloading has stopped. ALL the others are throttling CTH.
I switched to Brave too and so far, so good.
I switched to Brave … and all the ad nonsense disappeared. F Apple … Google … etc.
Noticed as well in postings.
I think this site is under some kind of attack. It is very wonky and difficult to comment or like other people’s comments.
Been like that for awhile but today was the worst yet.
Try Brave as your browser and search engine. No problems and no pop- ups.
Wanted to do that but payment demanded and family rule no digital transactions.
I have brave as my browser and was never asked for a payment. You might need to look into it again.
I have never been asked for a payment from Brave. That sounds wrong. Brave is just a browser and search engine like any of the others. It’s free and easy to use.
Brave is a free browser. Period!
Agree. Pop up ads targeted to appear in place where one types comments for posting.
Who is doubting what?
Interesting concern.
…And what do we do with agencies of the US Gov flying-under cover of darkness- illegals into NY area airports?
The RNC will NOT permit the Republican Party to sue the various agencies doing this to America….that is what it takes to get Judges involved.
The RNC is nothing but a $5.00 doorway hooker, to the DNC Johns on illegal immigration
The bus companies are just transporting paid fares. It is not up to them to ascertain whether or not the fares can support themselves in the destination jurisdiction.
According to the NYC sanctuary city laws, those arriving are guaranteed housing, food, and medical care – hence, they do not need to support themselves.
Your move Eric.
And, during discovery it will be found that the Gederal Government is the party paying for the bus tickets.
Adams is a MAGA man, doing MAGA’s work, whether he knows it or not.
Look beyond the superficial labels to find the truth.
That’s quite a stretch.
So ultimately he will have to sue the federal government as things move along.
The RNC is a $5.00 doorway hooker, to the DNC Johns.
What a total d-bag. Lying, Incompetent PO…
I get a quick glimpse of city on my way to work on Long Island. I smile knowing I’m far from it and living the best life I can in a wonderful Treehouse with my fellow Wolverines.
It is not ideological hypocrisy from Adams or his ilk. Never has been.
It is pure and unadulterated lying with the intention to deceive.
Not for one minute am I convinced they have a genuine belief in offering sanctuary to any of these people.
It is a front, a facade, a bold faced lie to appear virtuous.
Watch that facade fade away when the music stops and it’s time to act.
How much longer will people allow themselves to be deceived by these wilful but sugar coated lies from these lying liars?
Abbott should be pointing those buses south. End of discussion.
These companies will stop transporting illegal criminal aliens. They see what Trump is going through with his lawfare battle and they see him alone in the fight. The entire State of NY is a third world septic tank, including the court system.
This will not end well for these bus companies. No one will lift a finger to help them, including republicans and the State of Texas. Don’t blame them for folding. You and I would do exactly the same. This is the problem with the right. You could make the same comparison to the J6 sacrificial lambs. Most of them can’t get competent legal counsel and are allowed to rot in prison awaiting trial. It’s UFB.
Truth^^^^^
It’s because all the money belong to the enemy.
Should be suing the Biden Admin.
While not surprising, and not by skin color but by the fact the I believe the CIA? software Hammer & scorecard probably has his hanging weights in a vise. Might be concerned about HRC and her wet work team.
Obama turned the CIA external scanning software inward, scooping up untold members of value. Possible someone here can validate the name, but the discussion by the creator was that he was a aware of this, and that was not what it was intended to accomplish- external yes – internal no- But for a communist, no difference I suppose.
It’s what Chi-town already did, just a different way. NYC is a copycat. It’s all about the Benjamins for these guys, but I love that they are breaking their banks after they broke ours for 3 years shutting down and terrorizing their citizens for ZERO reason at all.
STEALING elections have consequences.
So self support ability is a requirement to enter the State of New York
Ya sure that will fix everything
Wait a second… how can the mayor sue bus companies for bringing in undocumented tourists? They just came to see the big lights and city sights. Maybe grab a hot dog and take in a show. I thought NY was all about attracting tourism.
Is it somehow the bus companies’ fault that the tourists didn’t show up for the ride home?
Why don’t you go ahead and identify as an acolyte of The Bush Family, Nikki?
Jeb Bush called it “an act of love” when people illegally enter our country.
Just there to help out the country club republicans who have lost so many workers harmed or killed by the deadly jabs.
As usual, the Left can’t see the forest for all those trees! The busses aren’t the problem! This administration is the problem! My answer would be to send 10 times the busses to NYC! When he complains, send another 10 times the busses! Sooner or later, reality will educate him!
The bus companies should counter sue NYC/Adams and name Biden & his DHS as the culprit parties who violated Fed Immigration laws to invite and help the illegal aliens trespass across our borders, but also secretly flew and bussed them to many US cities including NYC.
sounds like state interference with interstate travel, which would be unconstitutional
That wasn’t a post-Civil War Jim Crow law, was it?
Or even rooted in pre-Civil War efforts to fight Abolitionists helping the runaway slaves?
If so, then Mayor Adams is like that guy on the plantation who tried to keep other slaves from running away?
Make them live by their rules. They declared themselves a sanctuary city, now let them offer sanctuary to all who come.
Isn’t this one of the bedrocks of Lawfare, to pick obscure laws or reinterpret them in order to promote the result they want? Of course, the absurdity is that you state your city is a ‘sanctuary city’ solely for the political effect, rather than the actual reality of it.
In the common vernacular it is called “virture signalling”.
How many bus companies? SMH
Using a 19th century law: yet another example making the case for a constitutional amendment requiring sunset provisions on every bit of legislation and a platform of repealing rather than passing legislation. We do not need more legislation! We need less.
Blame ‘the gun’ has become such commonplace thinking………. now that’s brain washing!
Just substitute ‘the gun’ with any noun, just remember ‘the’ it identifies the target; in other words the trigger, the weather, etc.
God Help US
They really think all their mind games have been successful; rude awakening when truth be told.
He should be laughed out of court, but will he be?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
This is one dumb son of a bitch.
Good. Now Abbott should ship.them south.
Lawsuit may bankrupt company but it will not move any illegal invaders. Why not sue the private airlines flying the invaders and dropping them off in cities throughout the US? MonkeyWerx on Youtube describes the airlines used.
Huh, Mayor Adams we don’t want then either. Imagine that. When will this madness stop.
He thinks it is the governor of Texas’ fault? What about Joe Biden and his administration? No ole dopy Joe is a Democrat so let’s protect him.
Adams doesn’t care if he wins this lawsuit against the bus companies or not. That’s not his purpose.
Just like the frivolous lawsuits and bar actions against lawyers who dare to work for Trump and his supporters, just like the “defamation” law suits against people who speak out against the 2020/2022 election fraud, this is about making things so hard on the bus companies…making them defend themselves…costing them millions…that the bus companies will stop contracting with Texas and other states to transport the illegal aliens.
This is lawfare. Plain and simple.
Akin to a plane crash and trying to sue the maker of the fabric for the seats when the engine failed.
But NYC will never consider removing their Sanctuary City declaration.
This would be the ONE time I would appreciate a full Civil Asset Forfeiture action by the police in New York. They should claim the busses are suspected of being used in the crime of mass human trafficking and seized at the border of New York State. And THEN they should sue Texas in federal court for the same.
It needs to be as MESSY as POSSIBLE.
We have already seen where the federal government sues Texas for blocking illegals and that doesn’t get enough attention. The media can’t justify taking the fed’s position easily because the viewers would simply reject it anyway.
NY! You have my approval! TAKE THE BUSSES AWAY as evidence of CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
So Adams believes Texas has unlimited cash? What a maroon.
This NEEDS to get messy. Also, this is mostly targeting the bus companies. And I agree with that! These companies should burn in hell as far as I’m concerned. They KNOW what and WHO they are bussing. They are participating in the downfall of the country. NO MERCY.
While this would limit the means by which Texas can export these illegals, there are more sanctuary destinations available than NY,NY.
Meanwhile the federal government is still going after Texas for “illegally” defending its borders. There can be no argument that stands if/when it goes to SCOTUS. Texas is not blocking legal ports of entry. So there should be NO case by the feds which could stand on any merit.
We need all of this. It’s still “not bad enough” for the country to wake up.
How long before talking heads refers to Adams as “far-right”?