Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on Thursday sued 17 bus companies that have hauled more than 33,000 migrants from Texas to the Big Apple — claiming they should pony up the $700 million it cost the city to care for the asylum seekers.

The charter bus operators have earned “millions of dollars” from the Lone Star State while acting in “bad faith” to implement Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to transport migrants coming over the US-Mexico border to Democrat-run cities such as New York, Chicago and Denver, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit claims.

“These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants, and that’s why we are suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants sent here in the last two years by Texas,” Adams said in a statement.

Roughly 33,600 migrants have been bused using these companies since the start of New York City’s migrant crisis in April 2022, according to the suit.

The coach companies were paid roughly $1,650 per person they transported — a bloated price tag that’s more than five times the average rate for one-way tickets from Texas to NYC, the suit claims.

The city put the cost of care at $708 million by estimating it spend about $21,000 per migrant for the last 20 months.

The Adams administration has said it spent roughly $3.5 billion so far on the migrant crisis, with the projection of a $12 billion price tag by the end of fiscal year 2025.

The unique lawsuit comes on the heels of Adams cracking down on the companies by ordering them to give the city notice of their arrival and limiting when and where they can drop migrants off.

But the executive order has created a hectic situation in New Jersey with migrants arriving there at all hours — prompting local authorities to direct them onto trains bound for Manhattan so they don’t stick around, The Post reported Wednesday.

City officials said Texas was not named in the suit as states are barred from suing other states without their consent under federal guidelines.

None of the bus companies The Post reached by phone provided a comment. Some could not be reached or did not return calls. 

Abbott said Adams’ suit is “baseless and deserves to be sanctioned.”

“It’s clear that Mayor Adams knows nothing about the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, or about the constitutional right to travel that has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. Every migrant bused or flown to New York City did so voluntarily, after having been authorized by the Biden Administration to remain in the United States,” he said in a statement Thursday night.

“As such, they have constitutional authority to travel across the country that Mayor Adams is interfering with. If the Mayor persists in this lawsuit, he may be held legally accountable for his violations.”