New York City goes after the Busses bring migrants from Texas….

The City of New York has filed civil actions to the tune of $700 Million against the bus companies….

This is to regain the city says the costs of providing care and shelter for the legal migrants that Texas exports to New York City voluntarily….

Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Thursday ratcheted up his feud with Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, filing suit against 17 transportation companies that he said had carried out a plan by Mr. Abbott to send more than 30,000 migrants to New York City and make the city pay for their care.

New York is seeking more than $700 million in damages from those companies, an amount the lawsuit describes as the cost of caring for and sheltering the migrants.

The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, argues that purposely transporting the migrants with the “evil intention” of shifting the costs of their care to New York violates state law.

“This lawsuit is baseless and deserves to be sanctioned,” Mr. Abbott said in a statement. “It’s clear that Mayor Adams knows nothing about the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, or about the constitutional right to travel that has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court.”…..

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In a minute-long video released in conjunction with the lawsuit, Mr. Adams, a Democrat, said New York City could not “bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone.”

The arrival of more than 160,000 migrants in New York City has consumed much of Mr. Adams’s first two years in office. A decades-old consent decree, unique among major American cities, requires New York to provide shelter to anyone who asks.

Roughly 70,000 migrants remain in the city’s care. Mr. Adams has estimated that sheltering the migrants will cost the city $12 billion over three years.

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The suit cites Section 149 of New York’s social services law, which says that anyone who brings a “needy person” into New York State “for the purpose of making him a public charge” must either take the person out of the state or “support him at his own expense.”

The city is making a novel argument based on a law that has not been enforced since the Supreme Court declared in 1941 that such laws violate a constitutional right to travel — although it is possible the right to travel does not apply to noncitizens, said Roderick Hills, a professor at New York University’s law school.

Note….

The bus companies will bear the cost of defending themselves…

NOT Texas Governor Abbott ?