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.

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLifeEnglish
    32•8 months ago

    It’s $1246 per migrant - what fucking bus ticket costs that much? It’s absolutely a money-siphoning scam.

    • @dirthawker0
      5•8 months ago

      Greyhound is less than $200 from Eagle Pass to the NY Port Authority.

    • @Chocrates
      2•8 months ago

      For sure, but treating them humanely would cost more, before the grift.