Texas reportedly paid a private company $75.5 million in the span of a year to transport migrants to sanctuary cities across the U.S.
Transaction data provided by the Texas Department of Emergency Management shows the state paid Wynne Transportation $75,561,032.72 from Aug. 19, 2022, through Aug. 23, 2023, to bus migrants out of state.
13 Investigates asked the department for more details on the spending, but our questions were referred to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.
Abbott’s office did not respond to ABC13’s questions by Tuesday afternoon.
Since April 2022, Texas has bussed nearly 52,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, and Los Angeles, according to a news release from Abbott’s office.
Texas is basically the Iraq of the US. Specifically, Saddam-era Iraq, not the lovely paradise it’s become since liberation.
It’s run by a ruthless dictator with a corrupt and criminal government dependent on him for protection. The oil-based economy keeps the money rolling in, with the poor getting the bare minimum to keep them from revolting while the rich get richer and the “elected” leaders get patronage.
He exploits religious and ethnic differences to make sure Texans remain divided and conquered, and will not hesitate to use violence to keep them in line.
I think it’s clear that we will eventually have to invade them and liberate them for their oil.
Hmmmmm. Sounds like kidnapping and human trafficking
That’s some Republican level graft right there.
At least they’re out of texas?
Out of sight, out of mind? I hope that’s how I’m treated if I’m ever at rock bottom. /s
I was thinking more that texas is probably a bad place to be an immigrant in.
That’s probably true. But being shipped to a random city way out across a giant country isn’t ok.
There’s a silver lining of good intentions here… Immigration court is different from state to state. Texas only approves 35% of asylum seekers. Meaning if you’re an illegal in Texas wanting a pathway to legal residency, you’re not likely to get it there. Meanwhile, in blue states such as in NY, it’s 69% or higher. I would say majority of asylum seekers are seeking asylum for legitimate reasons. My wife tells stories that are very common to her family and other people from Honduras… The drug cartels rule with impunity, they have had family kidnapped for ransom, seeing people killed by gun violence is very normal, etc.
Anyways, typically, when USCIS finishes your intake, you have to be released to the custody of a friend or relative who accepts responsibility for you and you are given to their custody in their state of residence. You can’t just ask to be taken to a liberal state, you have to have family there. Republicans are being cute in how they’re dealing with immigration, but for the immigrants themselves, it’s a favorable outcome.
Interesting. Thank you for the info
Ofc.
Probably could have housed, fed, and employed those same migrants for that amount
Yeah but then Texas would be treating brown people like human beings /s
That’s $14,519.23 per migrant; wouldn’t have lasted them long, but it could have taken care of them long enough for them to get their feet under them, surely.I don’t understand how it costs $14.5k per person to transport them… Sounds like someone’s pockets were getting lined.It’s $1,453.09, not 14.5k. Still more than it should cost to transport people but not as unreasonable as I previously claimed.
Why not be a monster AND make some sweet side cheddar. Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the amount stolen off the top.
Yeah. Greyhound charges about $330 to go from San Antonio. In this case, the bus is likely fuller and only has to stop for gas and maybe a driver switch. Flights are actually cheaper, but then you’d have to explain to TSA why all these people without documentation and with flights paid by others are going through the airport.
You are off by a factor of ten. The cost is $1453 per person. 75,561,032/52,000
Headline is badly worded. The private company did not pay that amount; the private company was paid that amount by the State of Texas.
Why don’t headlines ever include important words like “was?”
I was downvoted incredibly heavily for explaining this a while ago, but the answer is to promote misunderstandings. It’s a holdover from print newspapers where every word not printed amounted to extra ad space and article space, and therefore revenue and detail. However, being that that’s not an issue online, its only use is as a form of clickbait called a “crash blossom.”
Why use many word when few word do trick?
Crime pays a lot if you’re a Republican!
Biden is building the wall they spent years claiming was all kinds of -ist.
The 75 mil was worth every penny. Once the ‘migrants’ started showing up in Democrat cities suddenly there was ‘no more room’
Funny how that works.
So you’re saying Republicans are so ineffective at their job that they couldn’t manage to build something as simple as a wall while being in power and it took a Democrat to get this Republican-lead task accomplished as well as having to rely on Democratic lead cities to house populations of people living within their state? Why is it people keep electing these slugs?
