The last straw for the mayor was apparently Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to send buses to New Jersey train stations connecting to New York City to thwart an executive order​.

In a stunning and unexpected move to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from shipping busloads of asylum seekers to New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has filed a lawsuit against 17 charter bus companies used by the Lone Star State.

He wants the bus companies to reimburse the city for the hundreds of millions of dollars it’s cost to shelter them.

Just call it the Empire State strikes back, with a bold counter punch to Abbott.

“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the cost of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas, alone,” Adams said.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    26·
    6 months ago

    when are desantis, abbott, and paxton going to be federally charged with human trafficking under fosta and sesta? because that is literally what they’re doing.

    • APassenger@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      Has anyone prove this assertion?

      I keep seeing it, but never proof. I’ve seem migrants alleged they were lied to. I can believe it, but has anyone proven it - Leo or journo?

      If you can prove it as a journalist, you get in the running for awards.

      Edit: I know the lemmyverse doesn’t like this question. So far one person has provided a link as proof - and it did no such thing. It alleged lightly and then equivocates.

      The downvotes don’t change truth. They just make us look silly and uninformed.

      Edit 2: Human trafficking as defined in US law.

      Please don’t act like I’m not doing research. Or that I’m uninformed.

      However, I am always open to new, fact-based information. Facts have to matter. If we give up on those too, then the US is in an even worse state than I hoped.

        • APassenger@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 months ago

          Link one that proves it?

          That’s all I asked. When I look, I see allegations, not proof.

          Edit to add the things I find when I search the internet trying to find that it’s true:

          "Each law varies, but many laws define human trafficking as recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

          As such, I think it is an exaggeration to claim that governors in Republican states are engaging in human trafficking by sending migrants to other states. In most cases that I have heard about, migrants have been happy to accept bus or plane tickets, even if they don’t know where they are going."

          Newsweek

          I am trying to find that it’s proven and cannot find it.

          But lemmy says it on every article. It doesn’t make it true. Accepted as fact is not the same as being one.

            • APassenger@lemmy.world
              4·
              6 months ago

              Directly from your linked article:

              Attorney and Journalist Seth Abramson also weighed in on the Florida governor’s recent decision, questioning the legality behind the unknowing transportation of around 50 immigrants.

              “Only a very very small—vanishingly small—percentage of lawyers are expert in human trafficking legislation, and I’m not one of them,” Abramson wrote. “So I would love to hear additional discussion from experts and law enforcement about the legality of what DeSantis and Abbott are doing.”

              You’re confusing allegations with proof. And human trafficking is a rather specific assertion.

              The article you posted does not prove what you assert. It alleges and equivocates.

              I’m not lying. I just read entire articles.

              Edit: If we want to talk integrity, trying to pass something like the below off as proof, that’s an integrity issue.

              Senator Adam Gomez @AdamGomezMA

              Transporting undocumented immigrants across state lines against their will… isn’t that the very definition of human trafficking

              6:27 PM · Sep 14, 2022

              I don’t need it proven in a court of law. A trusted journalist being lied to and shipped off would do it. But people keep passing a truth as proven, lemmy is buying it, and I can’t find actual proof. It’s Trunp-world stuff, just from the left.

              Edit next: I’m glad you or someone removed your insult calling me a “disengenuous half-wit.” You haven’t provided proof, but you have shown poor faith.

              I have the pics of the comment.