Texas has bused around 120,000 migrants from its border cities to so-called "sanctuary cities" over the past year and a half, investing some $221 million as of August of this year. The largest share of these migrants have been transported to New York City, which received more then 45,000 migrants through that method in that span.
The impact of this flow prompted the city's mayor, Eric Adams, to file a lawsuit in January against charter bus companies contracted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, seeking to bar them from knowingly dropping off "needy persons." To back its claim, the government cited a 1817 state law that criminalized bringing an indigent person into the state "for the purpose of making him a public charge."
