New York City lawsuit against 17 TX bus companies transporting illegal immigrants ruled 'unconstitutional'

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado, who refused to grant a preliminary injunction against the bus lines and deemed the city's case "dubious at best," struck down the lawsuit as "unconstitutional" in a Monday ruling.

According to The New York Post, the lawsuit was primarily predicated on a statute from the 1800s known as a "pauper's statute," which was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court over 80 years ago in Edwards v. California (1941). The suit, as previously reported by Law Enforcement Today, sought to stop the bussing of the "tens of thousands" of illegal immigrants who have flooded the so-called "sanctuary city." Additionally, it sought to recoup the cost of housing and feeding them from the bus lines.