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.

  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      9 months ago

      Are you seriously arguing that trafficking humans is justified politicking, because roads and education cost money to grow and maintain?

      Jesus fucking Christ, bruh…

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
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          9 months ago

          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.

            • Telorand@reddthat.com
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              9 months ago

              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.

    • kamenoko@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      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.