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.

  • Flying Squid
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    705 months ago

    Imagine if $124 million was spent on Texas’ poor instead…

    Of course that would require a governor who wasn’t a Republican.

    • FenrirIII
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      205 months ago

      Can’t be helping people, they might start to think they’re human! /s

      • Flying Squid
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        115 months ago

        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.

    • Billiam
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      55 months ago

      That sounds like socialism. You wouldn’t have any Communist tendencies, now would you?

    • @Chocrates@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      I don’t disagree, but these asylum seekers are in Texas regardless, that $123 million should be spent housing them humanely.