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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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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Imagine if $124 million was spent on Texas’ poor instead…
Of course that would require a governor who wasn’t a Republican.
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.
Yeah, did he buy one of those companies first, because it would be a missed corrupt opportunity if he didn’t.
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
BUT WE OWNED THE LIBS!
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.
Are you seriously arguing that trafficking humans is justified politicking, because roads and education cost money to grow and maintain?
Jesus fucking Christ, bruh…
Oh really? It’s not trafficking? Prove it. Because I can prove that it is.
Human Trafficking, according to Britannica:
Human trafficking, form of modern-day slavery involving the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception for the purpose of labour, sexual exploitation, or activities in which others benefit financially.
Human Trafficking, according to Miriam-Webster:
Organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited (as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor).
Human Trafficking, according to the UN:
Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.
Also, don’t bother being pedantic about the word “profit.” We both know politicking and remaining in power is a profit motive on its own.
Additionally, why do you keep going on about public transportation? Do you think Greyhound is public transportation? Because it’s not. It is “public” in that it transports the public, but it’s 100% a private corporation. Chartering an interstate bus to trick people dressed for South Texas weather to go to New York in shorts and a T-shirt in order to win political points is by definition transportation and exploitation for profit.
Human. Fucking. Trafficking. QED. And they spent Texans’ tax dollars to do it.
But please, do go off about how coercing humans with few rights and little representation for political points is justified.
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.
