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Yes, even New York's own Supreme Court recognizes Texas has a right
to transport out the border crossers!
Call yourself a Sanctuary City, - get those wishing a place.

from https://www.myhometowntoday.com/uncategorized/new-york-supreme-court-hands-texas-a-win-in-lawsuit-over-busing-scheme

New York Supreme Court hands Texas a win in lawsuit over busing scheme
Thu, August 1, 2024 by The Center Square
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(The Center Square)—The New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday handed
Texas a win in another border-related lawsuit. The ruling came after the
Fifth Circuit handed Texas a win in a marine barrier case, a federal
district court handed Texas yet another favorable ruling in a border
wall case, and now in New York over its busing strategy.

In this case, the high court ruled against New York City Mayor Eric
Adams’ administration in a lawsuit it filed against 17 Texas busing companies. The city sought $700 million from the companies to cover its
costs for caring for roughly 33,600 illegal border crossers bused there
at the time.

While Adams complained about buses of groups of 100 arriving at a time,
Texas was inundated with more than 1.9 million illegal border crossers
in fiscal 2023 alone, The Center Square exclusively reported. The Texas legislature has also allocated nearly $12 billion of Texas taxpayer
money to border security operations.

Adams requested a preliminary injunction to halt Texas’ busing scheme,
which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued violated the Commerce Clause of the
U.S. Constitution. The high court agreed, dismissing Adams’ request.

“This is a plain attempt to regulate the transportation of indigent
persons from State to State in violation of the Interstate Commerce
Clause,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado wrote in the ruling.
The court would not grant the request because the merits of the claim
“are dubious at best given myriad constitutional concerns,” he wrote.

After Adams sued seven months ago, Abbott said the lawsuit “is baseless
and deserves to be sanctioned. It’s clear that Mayor [Eric] 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. Every migrant bused or flown to New York City did so
voluntarily after having been authorized by the Biden Administration to
remain in the United States. As such, they have constitutional authority
to travel across the country that Mayor Adams is interfering with. If
the Mayor persists in this lawsuit, he may be held legally accountable
for his violations.”

The New York Civil Liberties Union also said the mayor’s actions were unconstitutional.

In March, one busing company announced it was halting transportation of
illegal border crossers from Texas to New York City, The Center Square reported.

In response to the ruling, the mayor’s office admitted part of the goal
was to limit how many illegal border crossers were arriving in the city.
His chief counsel, Lisa Zornberg, issued a statement, saying, “Notwithstanding the court’s ruling, the fact that we brought the
lawsuit, for a period of January until now, had the effect of at least
half of those bus companies stopped transporting individuals at Texas’ direction to New York City and was helpful to our management of the
situation overall.”

Abbott lauded the ruling saying, “Another WIN! The New York Supreme
Court REJECTED Mayor Adams’ attempt to block Texas from busing migrants
to his sanctuary city. Until the Biden-Harris Administration secures the border, Texas will continue to send migrants to sanctuary cities.”

Critics note that Adams didn’t sue the Biden administration after it
began flying hundreds of thousands of illegal foreign nationals,
including thousands of unaccompanied minors, from the border to cities nationwide. Nor did he sue Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who
has transported more than 25,000 illegal foreign nationals to New York
City. Nor has he sued El Paso’s Democratic officials, who were among the first to devise a busing scheme from the border to New York City before
Abbott did, The Center Square reported.

In response to Chicago’s mayor implementing a policy to block Texas
buses from arriving there, Texas expanded its operation to fly illegal
border crossers there beginning in January.

El Paso officials have reported that New York City and Chicago are
primary destinations of choice among illegal border crossers. Denver and Philadelphia were also popular and later added as destinations. City
employees help “migrants with travel arrangements to destination cities
of their choice,” city officials have explained.

Abbott’s press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, told The Center Square the difference between Texas’ transportation operation and the Biden administration’s is Texas “is being transparent. President Biden has
been flying planeloads of migrants all around the country and oftentimes
in the cover of night.”

As of last month, Texas has bused more than 120,000 foreign nationals
north who were unlawfully released into Texas by the Biden
administration, The Center Square reported.

Abbott first began busing illegal border crossers to self-described “sanctuary cities” in April 2022 through his border security mission, Operation Lone Star. Voluntary transportation from the border was first
made available to those seeking to go to Washington, D.C. Illegal border crossers were first dropped off in front of Biden’s “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris’ home. Since then, Texas has bussed more than
12,500 illegal border crossers to the nation’s capital.

Texas next expanded the busing initiative to New York City and Chicago
in August 2022, having sent now more than 46,000 and 37,000,
respectively, to the cities. Philadelphia was added in November 2022;
more than 3,400 chose to receive taxpayer funded transportation there.
In May and June of 2023, Denver and Los Angeles were added as
destination cities. Since then, more than 19,200 and 1,500,
respectively, chose to receive free transportation to the cities,
according to the latest available data.

Original Author: By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor

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