Texas Gov Has Spent $124 Million To Ship Migrants

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports:

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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NEW: Records we obtained show Texas has spent $124M+ busing migrants to sanctuary cities since Gov. Greg Abbott began the initiative in 2022.

The state has raised about $460K to supplement the costs, so taxpayers are footing majority of the bill. #txlege https://t.co/9zuRPLIRnR

— Monica Madden (blue check) (@themonicamadden) February 2, 2024