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Recently, the news media has been reporting on Chicago-area towns and villages enacting ordinances to fine interstate bus companies that transport and disembark undocumented migrants to their jurisdic...

Operation Lone Star Continues Fighting to Secure the Border

Texas Governor Greg Abbott appears set for a huge victory on the border crisis , as President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats appear set to cave on Republican demands for a crackdown.

 

(The Center Square) – New York City sued 17 Texas busing companies on Thursday for $700 million, arguing the money would cover the city’s costs for caring for roughly 33,600

Seventeen bus companies are accused of illegally transporting more than 33,000 migrants at the behest of Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the $708 million lawsuit.

New York City sued 17 Texas busing companies on Thursday for $700 million, arguing the money would cover the city’s costs for caring for roughly 33,600 foreign nationals bused there after illegally crossing the border in Texas.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that the city filed a lawsuit against 17 charter bus companies that provided transportation for migrants headed out of Texas to New York City. The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, is seeking $708 million in damages to cover the care provided for at least 33,600 asylum seekers who have arrived in the city since 2022.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) responded Thursday to a lawsuit filed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the Lone Star State’s migrant transportation program, calling it “baseless.” “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 y…