Records: Abbott’s migrant busing cost Texas $124 million
Records: Abbott’s migrant busing cost Texas $124 million
The program sends migrants to other U.S. cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” — a multibillion dollar initiative to slow down border crossings.
Texas has spent more than $124 million sending buses of migrants to sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar.
According to documents Nexstar obtained, Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more than 100,000 migrants from the state’s border communities to Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles as of Jan. 10. That equals out to 2,245 buses year to date, an average of 45 migrants per bus.
Nexstar obtained the documents through a public information request to the Texas Division of Emergency Management — the agency tasked with this initiative. The majority of the payments have been made to Wynne Transportation LLC, with a handful of payments made to Transportation Management Services Inc.
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How the fuck does it cost 124 MILLION dollars to bus people?
I'm entirely convinced this whole made up migrant fiasco is just a scheme by Abbot and DeSantis to funnel money to benefactors, because thats the only way I can imagine these plane and bus trips costing so much goddamn money.
It's $1246 per migrant - what fucking bus ticket costs that much? It's absolutely a money-siphoning scam.
Greyhound is less than $200 from Eagle Pass to the NY Port Authority.
For sure, but treating them humanely would cost more, before the grift.
It's costing NYC billions to house them in hotels so I'd say it's a win for Texas here. Lots of outrage here in NY over it. I can see it flipping some local elections
It's not going to flip any local elections except the mayoral race. No one blames local council people for the actions of freeloading southern states. The money is going to come from the federal government because this is a federal issue. Obviously Republicans in the House do not want to pay the bills their friends in Texas and Florida created.
Mayor Adams however is not doing a good job lobbying Congress for this money. He's also being investigated for campaign finance issues. The FBI or Justice Department already took his phones. Something about taking money from Turkish Universities or something weird. He actually had meetings with Congress to ask them for money and left to deal with his legal issues. Whatever.
Texas is sending the migrants that want to come to the US. Local politicians said NYC was a "sanctuary city" and now here they come. It's a nice thing in theory but breaks down in practice. Once the climate migration starts if NYC is still a sanctuary we are fucked
Come on it's only $55k per bus...