New York City brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday and tried to struggle more than $ 80 million that was previously sent to the city via the Federal Emergency Management Agency to accommodate migrants.
The lawsuit argues that the funds were previously approved and then paid by FEMA, to be removed from a city bank account on 11 February on 11 February without notification or administrative process.
The financing was withdrawn after Elon Musk claimed that the Ministry of Public Efficiency had found a FEMA payment of $ 59 million New York City This was used in luxury hotels to accommodate illegal migrants. Trump later repeated the statement of Musk and argued that “mass fraud” took place.
New York City received two separate subsidies during the Biden administration – one for $ 58.6 million and another for $ 21.9 million – when the city tried to pay for home migrants, many of whom were sent by Texas officials who are frustrated by the treatment of the BIDEN administration of the inflow of migrants who enter the US through the southern border.
Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, says he will run for re -election as a democrat
New York City brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday to struggle more than $ 80 million that was previously sent via FEMA to the city to house migrants. Mayor Eric Adams Left, President Donald Trump, Right and migrants outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Left | Stephen Marten/Getty images, Right | Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images, Inset)
TThe payments were made on the basis of the Shelter and Services Program (SPP) that the congress appropriated $ 650 million last year to help local authorities respond to the migrant crisis. There are currently fewer than 45,000 migrants who stay in the taxpayer financed hiding places in New York City, an increase in a peak of 69,000 more than a year ago.
Friday’s lawsuit was brought to the American court for the southern district of New York by the legal department of the city, which deals with the legal affairs of the city, against President Donald Trump, the American treasury, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the US Department of Interior Security.
The lawsuit accuses the federal government of violating the federal regulations and the conditions of the SSP subsidy, as well as the abuse of the authority and obligations of the federal government to carry out Congress approved and financed programs.
Elon Musk, adviser to President Donald Trump, leads the efficiency of the government. (AP images)
The lawsuit argues that on 19 February the federal government leaves the city a “non -compliance” letter that did not identify any non -compliance by the city.
“On the contrary, it announced ‘worries’, which are unfounded and do not merge with how the city managed the unprecedented crisis at the door,” said the legal department.
With reference to the government’s actions as a ‘cue grip’, the legal department said that the letter was a ‘mere cover’ to mask the real goal of the federal government, namely the permanent withholding of the money because it opposes Their use of migrants.
The city wants to earn back the funds and is looking for a motion for a provisional and permanent order and motion for a temporary limiting order (TO).
Mayor of New York City Eric Adams Defended and supported the lawsuit in a series of posts at the end of Friday, and wrote that the $ 80 million was approved, paid and then withdrawn – while the city spends more than $ 7 billion of its own taxpayer money to tackle the crisis in Three years.
Mayor Eric Adams said that the city housed more than 231,000 migrants during the crisis. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images, Left, Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty images, right.)
The Ministry of Justice goes to the case against NYC mayor Eric Adams
“We are going to work to ensure that the inhabitants of our city get every dollar they owe,” Adams wrote on post.
“Without a doubt our immigration system has been broken, but the costs for managing an international humanitarian crisis should not be overwhelming only on one city. We have almost completely insisted the costs of this humanitarian crisis, with more than 231,000 people our city Entering for shelter “
In the meantime, the New York City comptroller Brad Lander claimed that the suit came about after he forced Adams’s hand about this. Adams was taken under fire from the Democrats of New York about his decision to be more cooperative with federal immigration agencies in the arrest of criminal illegal migrants in the midst of the Ministry of Justice’s efforts to reject the charges against him.
“After my office had discovered it Elon Musk And his Doge Gooon team stable $ 80 million from the treasure chest of the city, we have successfully put Mayor Adams under pressure to allow the lawyers of the city to complain to the federal government to get our money back, “Lander said in a statement.
“The lawyers who stand up against the collusion of President Trump and Eric Adams deserve praise and we look forward to the fact that Donald Trump returns the money that he has stolen from New York.”
Lander runs against Adams in the mayor’s elections later this year.
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Fox News’ Landon Mion, Maria Paronich and Jennifer Johnson have contributed to this report.
