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Why don't they sue Texas?
Short answer is that it is always much easier to (successfully) sue a private party than a government entity. Also probably to deter the private companies from participating in human trafficking.
The latter is the big one.
Defending this lawsuit will cost them more money than they made bussing migrants, even if they win.
Which will make all of them think twice about doing it - or at the very least charge Texas much, much more money.
Part of it may also be to send a message. Texas isn't going to stop, but transportation companies might be deterred knowing NYC will drag them through court if they participate in these crimes. Even if they are sure they will win in the end, getting involved in years long litigation over a controversial issue is not good for business.
I'd guess that the hope is to scare charter bus companies away from working with Abbott; it's probably a lot easier to do that than to stop Abbott from sending people.
And companies use their money to defend themselves / pay fines, Abbot uses taxpayers money, so he doesn't care one bit.
States using states is hard, winds up immediately in the Supreme Court and they can't really use their own state laws against each other basically. In this case NY can hold the bus companies over the fire of NY state law.
Also, New York City isn't a state.
True enough, to even sue I think they may need to essentially get NY state on board with it as well.
Nah, X vs State is as valid as State Vs. X, for jurisdiction.
Like others have said though, other states don't really have to follow your city laws, so it's much easier to get the companies that do have to.
The SCOTUS does have original jurisdiction over interstate lawsuits of this sort, but Congress has also set up district and circuit courts to take up the slack before SCOTUS has to touch it--they process the cases first and then it goes up to the SCOTUS if there is a particularly impactful or unresolved question to decide.
Because they can't scare Texas but they can scare bus companies. Why wouldn't they take the effective way?