Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on Thursday sued 17 bus companies that have hauled more than 33,000 migrants from Texas to the Big Apple — claiming they should pony up the $700 million it cost the city to care for the asylum-seekers.
The charter bus operators have earned “millions of dollars” from the Lone Star State while acting in “bad faith” to implement Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to transport migrants coming over the US-Mexico border to Democrat-run cities such as New York, Chicago and Denver, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit claims.
“These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants, and that’s why we are suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants sent here in the last two years by Texas,” Adams said in a statement.
Roughly, 33,600 migrants have been bused using these companies since the start of New York City’s migrant crisis in April 2022, according to the suit.
The coach companies were paid roughly $1,650 per person they transported — a bloated price tag that’s more than five times the average rate for one-way tickets from Texas to NYC, the suit claims.
The city put the cost of care at $708 million, though the suit does not say how that figure was calculated.
The unique lawsuit comes as on the heels of Adams cracking down on the companies by ordering them to give the city advance notice of their arrival and limiting when and where they can drop migrants off.
But the executive order has created a hectic situation in New Jersey with migrants arriving there at all hours — prompting local authorities to direct them onto trains bound for Manhattan so they don’t stick around, The Post reported Wednesday.
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