Groups representing New York’s Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, Hispanic business owners and black pastors have joined Uber’s campaign to stop the city from indefinitely extending its cap on new for-hire vehicles.

Recent letters from seven ethnic and religious groups to the Taxi and Limousine Commission obtained by The Post argue that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan will burden drivers from their communities who don’t already own licensed vehicles with hefty leasing fees, effectively creating an unregulated secondary market.

“Many drivers in our community are suffering because they’re paying high fees to rent vehicles. With the cap in place, their opportunity to own a vehicle is all but gone,” Courtney Bennett of the Harlem-based group One Hundred Black Men, which sent one of the letters, told The Post.

“This is a path to entrepreneurship for many of these families.”

In addition to Bennett’s organization, the TLC — which will vote on the cap next week — received letters from the New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, the NYC Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Bangladeshi American Community Development and Youth Services, Pakistani group Pacoli New York, the United Chinese Association of Brooklyn and Mobilizing Preachers and Communities.

The TLC will also vote on second plan to reduce the amount of time drivers can cruise without passengers below 96th Street.

But the proposal would “effectively quarantine immigrant drivers and prevent them from doing business in half of Manhattan streets,” Ahmed Mohamed, an attorney for the Council on American Islamic Relations, wrote in a July 21 letter.

The arguments echo those made by app-based ride-sharing companies and some of their drivers at a hearing on the plan last month.

Uber said it has financial relationships with three of the letter-writing organizations — One Hundred Black Men, the Hispanic Chamber, and MPAC — but a company spokesperson said those relationships don’t extend to regulatory issues, and that the groups decided to send letters of their own accord.

“The Mayor is determined to replicate a taxi medallion system that forced hundreds of drivers into bankruptcy and stranded New Yorkers who didn’t live below 96th Street in Manhattan,” said spokesperson Alix Anfang.

In response, acting TLC Chair Bill Heinzen accused Uber and its competitors of “trying to sell fear with a false version of scarcity.”

“The TLC will seek more information from the largest vehicle leasing companies about the rates they charge and the terms of these leases,” said Heinzen, who claimed the app companies “play a large role” in setting those rates.

“The commission is learning more and will regulate if necessary to prevent abusive practices by the leasing companies,” he added.