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.

  • Jay
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    12911 months ago

    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.

    • TWeaK
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      6911 months ago

      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).

    • @[email protected]
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      1811 months ago

      Yeah, did he buy one of those companies first, because it would be a missed corrupt opportunity if he didn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

      Gotta pay off the traffickers doing the actual driving so they don’t stab you in the back, you know?