New York has sued 17 bus companies for bringing thousands of migrants to the city from the Mexican border at the behest of Texas governor Greg Abbott, in a scheme that it says has caused a housing and budget crisis.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the office of New York mayor Eric Adams said it was seeking $708mn in compensation from the companies — a sum its lawyers said reflected the cost of accommodating the 33,600 asylum seekers bussed to New York over the past 20 months alone.
The bus companies had earned millions of dollars in revenue by assisting Abbott, the filing claimed, violating a New York law that requires those who bring “a needy person from out of state” to “convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense”.
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