Mayor Eric Adams filed a lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant busing program, but the New York Supreme Court rejected it. Texas is now able to carry on sending migrants to New York City via bus, according to the ruling.
In a social media post, Governor Abbott pledged to continue transporting migrants from the Texas border region to New York City and other sanctuary cities. Abbott has now won two legal cases in as many days thanks to the ruling from the New York Supreme Court.
According to CBS News, Mayor Adams and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the bus companies employed by the Texas Division of Emergency Management, alleging that they had violated the state’s Social Services Law by abandoning refugees “without offering a source of support.” The New York Supreme Court turned down the city’s request for an injunction.
The newspaper said that the complaint also asked for $700 million to pay for the city’s housing, food, and medical costs.
According to the Office of the Texas Governor, since August 2022, Texas has bussed about 46,000 migrants to New York City.
As LAW360 stated:
“The Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services requested that the court consider eight corporations under Section 149 of the New York Social Services Law.” This clause states that someone who knowingly transports a “needy person” from outside New York with the intention of making them a public charge must either remove the individual from the state or provide financial assistance for them. On Monday, however, Justice Mary V. Rosado of the New York Supreme Court announced that the nation’s highest court had ruled in Edwards v. California that a related California statute was unconstitutional because Congress was empowered to regulate interstate commerce when it came to the flow of the impoverished from one state to another.”
Judge Rosado suggested in his order that Congress take up the issue of “mass migration of people within the country, which the commissioner seeks to chill or prevent, lest the United States fall to a regime of Balkanization, with each state setting a patchwork of inconsistent criteria for crossing state lines.”
In The Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services v. Buckeye Coach LLC et al., case number 150122/2024, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, is considering the case, according to LAW360.
In as many days, Governor Abbott has already prevailed in two court fights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Texas may keep the buoys that Governor Greg Abbott had ordered erected in the Rio Grande, as Breitbart Texas reported.
“Biden tried to remove them. Abbott said on social media “I struggled to keep them in the water.” “They won’t move from their current location.”
In its majority decision, the court overruled an en banc appeal of a lower court’s preliminary injunction, stating that the district court erred in determining that the United States would likely erect the barrier in a navigable portion of the Rio Grande. We cannot square the conclusions and findings of the district court with almost a century’s worth of prior cases.
The three-judge panel, which had previously agreed with the lower court’s ruling, also overturned the verdict of the entire court.
The lawsuit’s trial has been set for August 6th in Austin, Texas by the lower court in the Western District of Texas.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit en banc Case No. 23-50632, USA v. Greg Abbott, is the case in question.
