Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions
Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions
The charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city. Wynne Transportation is fighting new restrictions in Chicago against buses dropping off one-way passengers without prior notic...
A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies working with Texas, court documents show.
Wynne Transportation LLC is fighting new restrictions in Chicago against buses dropping off one-way passengers without prior notice.
The ordinance does not specifically mention immigration, but city leaders have acknowledged it is in response to the influx of more than 30,000 migrants arriving from Texas on government-contracted charter buses, often dropped off on street corners with little or no notice.
Regardless, Texas should be held liable for trafficking.
Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.
How can this be prosecuted as trafficking?
edit: Thank you everyone for all the responses. I appreciate it.
Driving someone to chicago and dropping them off isn't trafficking, but there is most definitely a slew of child-labor happening in this country, and the majority of the children involved are migrants who illegally crossed the border. There's a lot of coverage about this if you look for it. I imagine that Texas might be involved in some part of that process if they're the ones handling these people.
Edit: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
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So is this another fabricated case just so that Supreme Court can strip cities of some rights? I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Maybe the charter company could just announce they are coming...
Sue the bus company over being an accessory to kidnapping.
It does seem like a pretty easy case for them. The law sounds unconstitutional, infringes the right of free travel.
You don't have a Constitutional right to human trafficking.
The law isn't banning human trafficking. They specifically say that in the story. If you or I bought a one way ticket to chicago, the law would require the bus company to annouce that you or I are coming. It's just too broad. And it is what happens when you ask winners of a popularity contest to write and approve laws.
Yeah, it's a poorly written law for sure. Not really even a good attempt to solve the problem
Sending migrants to new York and Chicago has probably been the best political move any Texas governor has done in a long time.
Using desperate and innocent people as political pawns is a good look in your eyes?
What if your mother/sister/brother/ or child moved to Sweden and she called you and said she got dropped off in a random city with no guidance or resources? You’d be happy with the Swedish government for that?
Forcing cities that claim to not care about illegal immigration to deal with less than one percent of the people Texas is expected to handle, has been great for them to realize the problem. These people are either existing with no resources in Texas, or being dropped off with nothing in New York/Illinois, I can't really say which is worse.
Bussing people is preventing other states from ignoring the southern border problems.
Says more about the people of Texas than anything else.
And another for the block list. Thanks for showing us who you are.