New York's Sneaky New Tactic to Stifle Greg Abbott's Migrant Bus Stunts

[demmiblue]

Two more buses arrived in the city from Texas on Friday morning. This time, however, the NYPD Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Unit was waiting.

New York City deployed a new tactic Friday morning in an effort to counter Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s increasing flow of migrant buses: drowning the bus companies and their drivers in traffic violations.

Two more buses arrived at the city’s Port Authority Bus Terminal just after 6 a.m. Friday, adding to the more than 17,000 migrants Abbott has bused to New York in a sick political stunt.

This time, however, a half-dozen uniformed members of the NYPD Highway Patrol’s Motor Carrier Safety Unit were waiting.

The first bus to arrive was a blue Volvo bearing Mexican “Autotransporte Federal Turismo” license plates, owned and operated by a company out of Cedar Hill, Texas, called Autobuses La Sultana LC. A white document taped to the windshield read “TEXAS 144- HOUR PERMIT” and “VALID IN TEXAS ONLY” and was dated Oct. 6. The second bus had Texas plates and was marked “EJECTIVO TRAVEL.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-tries-a-sneaky-new-tactic-to-stifle-texas-guv-greg-abbotts-migrant-bus-stunts

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1. Going to be hard to hire buses and drivers if they don't come back

Your move, Gov. Abbott.

[mitch96]

2. Yup, confiscate the busses and nonsense arrests of the drivers. When it gets back to Tx

Some drivers might have second thoughts.. Maybe the busses could get "misplaced"?
YMMV
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[crickets]

3. Agreed. Here's hoping this works. nt

[HubertHeaver]

4. Give the drivers a tour of Riker's Island.

Nice, long, five-day tour. Then, send them back to Texas to warn the the other drivers.

[IbogaProject]

5. No just cite the legal violations

No need to fake anything, NYC and NY State traffic rules are strict enough. There would be no need to bend the rules to discourage this process. Just finding any court appearance required violation would keep any individual or company from ever coming back to NYC and maybe not even to America, if registered in Mexico.

[IbogaProject]

7. Six tickets to one of the drivers

They didn't mention the total to the other one. I'd bet some were for the driver and others for the registered owner. Again I hope one or more are court appearance required, as that will create a dilemma pay airfare, with the likely scenario that the cops won't show up first appearance and then they have to come back again. If they miss at at any point then all kinds of additional pain await them.

[Hortensis]

8. Exactly. Scrupulously legal.

The drivers and bus company know they're participating in very irregular political stunts that involve exploitation of their passengers, so should be prepared for the costs and inconvenience of being involved.

[MineralMan]

6. Very Clever. Now Tow Them to the NYC Vehicle Impound Lot.

That should work.

[FakeNoose]

9. It's hard to believe that number of 17,000 immigrants, when each bus only holds about 50 people

Are we to believe that Abbott has sent 340 (or so) buses to NY in the last couple of weeks?

Doesn't seem likely.