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.
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…
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!
Republicans don’t care about children
make an argument that debunks what he just said instead of saying “uhhh no you cant do this cause i dont think you can”
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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.
Is this not a human trafficking operation? What is the FBI doing with their thumbs in their asses?
BUT WE OWNED THE LIBS!
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.
Are you seriously arguing that trafficking humans is justified politicking, because roads and education cost money to grow and maintain?
Jesus fucking Christ, bruh…
Its not trafficking. Is all public transit trafficking?
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.
What force or deception?
No, answer the original question. You don’t get to change topics as a defensive tactic.
Prove how it’s not trafficking. Provide definitions and evidence to support your position or admit that you’re lying. Then we can address other topics or points of contention.
That whole claim rests on whether or not it was by force or deception
Not who you asked, but this was so well documented in so many news articles that I thought it was basic knowledge. I googled it for you.
Eight Venezuelan migrants were flown last week from Texas to Sacramento with little cash — some without shoes — and the men have no idea why they were sent or who paid for the flights, an advocacy group said.
The men, who crossed the border in Laredo, Texas, had intentions to travel to New York, Florida or Utah and said they were confused as to why they were sent to California, where none of them had contacts or prospects.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/15/greg-abbott-texas-kamala-harris-migrant-bus/
Migrants landing in Martha’s Vineyard told reporters that they didn’t know where they were, that they thought they were going to different destinations or that they were lured on to the planes with the promise of being able to get work papers. Local officials said they were given no advanced warning about the migrants but would be providing resources to support them.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/30/us/asylum-seekers-texas-city-mayors/index.html
“Border Patrol will tell people that they can only wear one piece of clothing, so they strip themselves of their jackets and their warm clothing,” he said. “And that’s how from the point of contact with Border Patrol, to the point of being released in Chicago, or New York, or wherever it might be, that’s how they are traveling, oftentimes without shoelaces, because they’re told that they have to remove them.”
“He (Abbott) is now sending buses outside of the City of Chicago, in some instances, a hundred miles away where people are being dropped off … they’re being told they are in the City of Chicago, literally dropped off in the middle of nowhere,” Johnson said on “CNN This Morning” Friday. “I find that to be inhumane and unconscionable.”
City officials are working to ensure all of the migrants have a healthy and dignified place to live, and blamed Abbott for creating the conditions that led to the boy’s still-unexplained death, Johnson said. Many migrants arrive in Chicago sick and traumatized, he added.
It rests on the Texas GOP trafficking humans, also known as human trafficking
“It’s clear the migrants did not give their consent in any real way to be sent here. As many as 40% have family or close relations in other parts of the country who could provide them accommodation, but the migrants were not given the option of going to those places.” Levine wrote. “Not only is the State of Texas not coordinating with NYC, they have made migrants sign NDAs to ensure we get no advance warning of bus arrivals.”
We could send them the fuck back to mexico.
Or, now here’s a wild idea… OR we process their asylum requests in accordance with due process? You know, the laws that state they have to be on US soil before they can request asylum?
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/asylum-united-states
I take it, with this obvious pivot, that you have conceded that it is indeed trafficking then?
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.
