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Jonathan Turley: New York's Lawsuit Against Bus Companies Is 'Motivated by Pure Hypocrisy'

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A Twitchy reported earlier this week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who ran on keeping New York a sanctuary city, was restricting bus arrivals to New York City, telling busloads of illegal immigrants to just keep on driving. We'd been assured that was kidnapping, and it certainly wasn't very becoming of a sanctuary city which Adams says is at a "breaking point."

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Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley reports that New York City has actually filed a lawsuit against the bus companies. We couldn't believe it either.

Turley writes:

New York City Major Eric Adams announced on Thursday that he is suing bus companies for over $700 million for busing undocumented persons to the state. This is truly a thing to behold. It is a frivolous lawsuit based on an absurd law motivated by raw hypocrisy. In the meantime, the Biden Administration has been flying migrants to outside the city but no lawsuit is expected.

New York City politicians have long heralded their status as a sanctuary city. Yet, it is now taking various methods to prevent migrants from seeking sanctuary by threatening anyone who brings them to the city.

The lawsuit will rely on New York Social Services Law § 149, which 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.”

Of course, these companies are not transporting people to make them a public charge. They are transporting these people because they or a third party paid the fare for transport. That statute expressly allows the commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services (DSS) to sue to recover costs.

In seeking to impose crippling fines and damages on transportation companies, the lawsuit will likely be challenged as unconstitutional due to its vagueness, curtailment of interstate travel, and a host of other glaring problems.

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That law doesn't sound like something a sanctuary city would have on the books. And as Turley notes, it hasn't stopped the Biden administration from flying planeloads of illegal immigrants into New York. They even have special lines at the airport for undocumented illegals boarding flights. Maybe he should sue President Biden since he's responsible for brining "public charges" into the city.

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No, but the immigrants on the buses did.

New York City has run out of room to house them; as Adams said, "For many months we were able to keep visualization of this crisis from hitting our streets… But we have reached a breaking point. We are no longer able to do that." Oh, so he's worried about the "visualization" of the crisis. Yeah, it doesn't look good for him.

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