For a year and a half, Texas has been sending illegal immigrants by bus to Washington and New York at regular intervals to get rid of them and thus also resist the migration policy of US President Joe Biden. Now New York City is responding with legal means. He has filed a $700 million lawsuit against 17 bus and logistics companies.
Democratic mayor Eric Adams expects additional costs of around twelve billion dollars (about 10.9 billion euros) due to migrant transport. “For this reason, we are demanding reimbursement of approximately $700 million already spent over the past two years on migrants transported here from the U.S. state of Texas,” Adams said Thursday. With the measure, Adams further escalates the dispute with Texas over the distribution of migrants.
The east coast metropolis recently introduced stricter rules for the arrival of charter buses. Over the past year and a half, more than 150,000 immigrants have reached the liberal metropolis on the east coast of the US; many of them entered the country through the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
New York lacks housing and financial resources
One of the reasons New York draws so many people is the city’s legal obligation to provide overnight accommodations to anyone who requests it. Now the city with eight million inhabitants is in danger of reaching the limits of its capacity. There is a lack of housing and financial resources.
For Republican governors like Greg Abbott of Texas, sending migrants to Democratic-leaning parts of the country is a political tactic. Illegal immigration is also one of the dominant issues in the 2024 US presidential election campaign.
Source: Krone
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