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.
So that's over $1200 a person.
A Greyhound bus ticket from Houston Texas to Washington DC costs about $400.
Seems like some people are making a lot of coin off this.
Yes, and those people are friends with Abbott. Same thing happened with DeSantis and that chartered flight to Martha's Vineyard, which incidentally also took migrants from Texas and had nothing to do with Florida (whose taxpayer money paid for it).
Yeah, did he buy one of those companies first, because it would be a missed corrupt opportunity if he didn't.
Politicians don't own the companies, they're just friends with them and get kickbacks in exchange. Eg give my bus company a very lucrative state government contract, I'll give you free chartered flights.
At the least probably buddies. Wynne is owned by Avalon Motorcoach, who is in turn owned by Virgin-Fish Inc. which is owned by private individuals. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-03666/avalon-motor-coaches-llc-acquisition-of-control-wynne-transportation-llc
Gotta pay off the traffickers doing the actual driving so they don't stab you in the back, you know?
Imagine if $124 million was spent on Texas' poor instead...
Of course that would require a governor who wasn't a Republican.
Can't be helping people, they might start to think they're human! /s
But the crazy part is that a lot of the people that need the help and aren't getting the help keep voting Republican anyway.
That sounds like socialism. You wouldn't have any Communist tendencies, now would you?
I don't disagree, but these asylum seekers are in Texas regardless, that $123 million should be spent housing them humanely.
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.
Come on it's only $55k per bus...
I'm a Republican trying to Protect The Children and I'm MUCH happier with my Tax Dollars going to HUMAN TRAFFICKING then to FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
Is this not a human trafficking operation? What is the FBI doing with their thumbs in their asses?
BUT WE OWNED THE LIBS!
Yeah, THAT'S the problem; the human trafficking is too EXPENSIVE 🤦
If it gets voters off their asses, I don't care what justification they use to get people pissed off about it.
TX immigration policy is bussin AF frfr /s
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telling them all to walk back to their boats and fuck off is a lot cheaper than 124 million dollars
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Nexstar obtained the documents through a public information request to the Texas Division of Emergency Management — the agency tasked with this initiative.
The Republican governor began sending busloads of migrants outside of the state in April 2022, saying it will ease the burden of immigration on Texas cities.
Taxpayers are footing about 99.6% of the total cost of these buses, coming from money already appropriated by the Texas Legislature for border security under Operation Lone Star.
In September 2022, busing records from TDEM that Nexstar obtained showed the costs included the amount charged to the state for bus mileage, driver pay and security personnel — which had been the most expensive aspect.
At the time, a senior spokesperson with TDEM told Nexstar the state saw security as a necessary precaution to take, in order to protect “passengers and drivers as they make a cross-country trip.”
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Yes, and its very effective to get politicians to realize that illegal immigration is a bad thing.
How much does public transportation cost? The schools? Similar thing.
Spending that money on political stunts that treat immigrants as pawns made us realize what an absolute piece of shit Abbott, Republicans, and their supporters are. The lesson here is that Conservatives see brown people as less than human.
Except it's not and it didn't.
If the politicians who say they are against illegal immigration really are, why do they never talk about the people who hire illegal immigrants and give them their whole reason to do so?
It would be pretty easy to go after them. Just have agents pose as illegals and see who hires them.
You have no idea how America was built, do you? Cheap immigrant labor from the wrong kind of whites and slavery if you were too brown.
These ghouls are just out to enrich themselves and don't care how much human misery it takes to achieve it.
I do know, the practice shouldnt continue.