The New York State Supreme Court has knocked down an effort by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to ban buses from dropping off illegal aliens in the Big Apple.

The Mayor had filed for a preliminary injunction banning Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from sending busloads of illegals to New York City. Bu the New York Civil Liberties Union argued that his idea was illegal and his ban should be vacated. Ultimately, the state’s highest court agreed with the activists and denied Adams his bus ban.

As Jazz Shaw noted:

The mayor’s lawsuit had targeted 17 bus companies. He demanded that they either stop dropping off migrants in the city or pay the city a staggering sum of $700 million to pay for their shelter, food, and health care. The bus companies refused and the ACLU took up their cause, eventually emerging victorious.

Without even diving into the underlying constitutional questions, the rules that the mayor was attempting to impose simply sounded crazy from the beginning. The bus companies work in the transportation sector and they carry people from point A to point B. That’s the entire reason they exist. People are free to travel around the country, including interstate travel. Someone pays for a ticket (in this case Governor Abbott) and the person is free to board the bus. Adams wasn’t forbidding all travel from Texas. He was specifically trying to target the migrants. If the bus companies started trying to pick and choose who they transport, they would be the ones getting sued by the passengers.

Then there is the basis for Adams’ claim that the bus companies needed to pay for the cost of the migrants. Adams accused the companies of “violating New York’s Social Services Law by dropping off thousands of people without providing a means of support.” That is also a bizarre and unsupportable accusation. Millions of people ride buses every day and it is not the bus line’s obligation to check their financial status before they board provided they have enough money for a ticket. If Greyhound picks up a homeless citizen in Atlanta (who has a ticket) and drops them off in Manhattan, it isn’t the bus line’s obligation to find them a place to stay.

Of course, none of this would be happening at all if Joe Biden had not essentially erased all our immigration laws so he could allow 20 to 30 million people, many of whom are the world’s worse criminals, to enter this country without any restrictions at all.

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