The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has announced a lawsuit against bus companies for providing bus services.
The bus companies are selling transportation not to gangs of thieves that the companies know to be on their way to rob banks but to the government of Texas. Texas has been sending people arriving in Texas from the other side of the border to the Big Apple, a self-proclaimed sanctuary city.
New York City is suing 17 bus and transportation companies for a total of more than $700 million. It wants the money to help take care of the people on the buses.
Apparently, Adams is one of that species of politician who has no standards — who will lurch in any direction at any moment, clutch at any straw, heedless of the rights of others, just as soon as an advisor says “Hey, let’s try this . . .”
Hey. Sue the federal government for its border policies, Mr. Mayor, if you object to those policies. Don’t sue bus companies and road pavement companies and restaurants and toll booths because they enable people to get from point A to point B.
My advice to the bus companies: countersue.
Many things bother me about the mayor’s ugly action. One is his indifference to the precedent being set, especially if the lawsuit succeeds. Doesn’t he care about the long-range effects of suing people for millions of dollars just for earning their living in a legal, peaceful way?
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Unfortunately, judges are often willing to play along with the public-relations efforts of the parties who helped them get judicial positions.
Adams himself is floundering and foundering. His standing in polls is truly awful, he’s under active investigation by the US DoJ for allegedly corrupt campaign finance, and his only hope for reëlection lies in the loopiness of those who have discernibly positioned themselves as challengers.
Before the mayor sues the federal government for its border policies, he should look closer to home. Revoke NYC sanctuary city status. Let ICE know the NYPD and his office will cooperate with ICE to remove illegal aliens. Then sue Albany to remove the state’s sanctuary status.
Can’t blame the Obiden cartel without seriously risking being indicted for something. Seditious something or other. And can’t acknowledge his own part in the current catastrophe. Libprogs don’t do consequences.
Civil suit does seem like an odd remedy for aiding and abetting kidnapping. Arrest the drivers, seize the buses, put out warrants for the managers (on both government and private side) who signed contracts pursuant to the conspiracy, etc. That should put a stop to the nonsense.
But, then, that would also requiring that everyone quit pretending the federal government has the authority to regulate immigration, an authority clearly, unambiguously, and specifically prohibited to it in the US Constitution.
At best, you are abusing the words “specifically”; the Constitution does not specify control of immigration as not under control of the Federal government.
Whether the Constitution grants or denies such control depends upon whether the inflow of immigrants is regarded as commerce. Article 1 §8 ¶3 specifically grants to Congress a power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”.
If immigration is not commerce, then under the general terms of the Tenth Amendment, power to regulate immigration is left to the constituent states.