Eric Adams stops Texas bus company from sending more immigrants with $700 million lawsuit

A Texas bus company has agreed to stop busing immigrants to New York City after a lawsuit from Mayor Eric Adams .

Roadrunner Charters signed a stipulation letter agreeing to stop sending immigrants to New York City on Wednesday. The company was one of the spearheads of Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) effort to ship immigrants to Democratic-run cities.

"The Defendant Roadrunner Charters Inc. will refrain forthwith from transporting individuals known as migrants from Texas to New York City, and/or from Texas to the vicinity of New York City," the letter , obtained by Politico, said.

Roadrunner Charters is one of 17 companies sued by the New York City Department of Social Services, which is seeking $708 million in damages. It argues that the companies violated a state law that says anyone who brings a person to New York to become dependent on state aid must either take them to another state or provide for them.

Adams celebrated the move in a statement and called on all other bus companies involved in the effort to follow Roadrunner Charters's lead.

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"I am pleased to see that Roadrunner — one of the bus companies we sued for taking part in Texas Governor [Greg] Abbott's scheme to transport tens of thousands of migrants to our city in an attempt to overwhelm our shelter system and shift costs to New York City — has agreed to halt the bussing of migrants into and around New York City while the lawsuit proceeds," Adams said in a statement, obtained by Fox News. "We call on all other bus companies involved in this suit to do the same."

The Washington Examiner reached out to Adams for further comment.