Jonathan Turley makes an interesting observation regarding the bussing of illegals to NYC. I believe that there is another more salient dimension to this claim by NY regarding the transport of indigent illegals. Namely common carrier law! As Turley notes:
New York City Major Eric Adams announced on Thursday that he is suing bus companies for over $700 million for busing undocumented persons to the state. This is truly a thing to behold. It is a frivolous lawsuit based on an absurd law motivated by raw hypocrisy. In the meantime, the Biden Administration has been flying migrants to outside the city but no lawsuit is expected. New York City politicians have long heralded their status as a sanctuary city. Yet, it is now taking various methods to prevent migrants from seeking sanctuary by threatening anyone who brings them to the city. The lawsuit will rely on New York Social Services Law § 149, which requires that “[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, a needy person from out of state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge…shall be obligated to convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense.”
The bus is a common carrier. It carries people from one place to another regardless. As such if a bus happens to carry a bank robber from A to B they are held harmless for that person robbing the bank. The whole information industry is based upon some form of common carriage. Common carrier law has been around since Queen Elizabeth I. We here in the US inherited it and it initially applied to ships and land based physical carriage. The carrier is immune from what the entity does which it carries. Otherwise commerce would come to a halt. The English recognized this and common carrier laws allowed England to dominate world trade.
But New York City and State are run by the same folks that instituted the tea tax that led to the Boston Party of past fame. They tax anything, dead or alive. Recently they sue anything dead or alive, if they do not like it.
It will be interesting to see what this does.
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