Texas private company paid $75 million in 1 year to bus migrants out of state, report shows
Texas private company paid $75 million in 1 year to bus migrants out of state, report shows
Thanks to a public records request made by ABC13's investigative team, we now know exactly how much Texas has spent busing migrants out of state in the past year.
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.
Hmmmmm. Sounds like kidnapping and human trafficking
And a lot of fraud. These bus tickets do not run 1500 per person, even with associated rounding-up costs (although the victims likely assembled themselves as they were deceived).
Yeah, and what is anyone going to do about it? Nothing.
Probably could have housed, fed, and employed those same migrants for that amount
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.
Yeah but then Texas would be treating brown people like human beings /s
Do people even try due diligence before mouthing off? 4th grade math would tell you that we're taking like 1.5k. You are a part of our problem.
And you are part of the problem by deflecting away from the fact that these Republicans are funneling taxpayer money to their buddies by paying $1500 for a one-way bus ticket. You can get first-class airfare for that price.
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.
Specifically, Saddam-era Iraq, not the lovely paradise it’s become since liberation.
Specifically pre ottoman fall and subsequent transfer between a dozen world powers.
$1500 for a bus ticket out of state seems pretty damn high (almost fraudulently high), but not as ridiculous as the headline makes it sound. What is ridiculous is trafficking 52,000 people who have no resources, no support, no contacts, no anything to someplace they didn't choose to go to thousands of miles away.
They agreed to being bussed (but they didn't know exactly where) and Texas officials made sure to get that on paper to cya themselves against lawsuits and criminal charges
You gonna tell me Wynne Transportation isn’t a major donor or otherwise owned by a rabid republiQan?
Last time we dug into Florida’s human trafficking we found all kinds of exciting illegal turds. SOP.
Hating on people sure is expensive
$1500 per bus ticket. You can buy first class airfare for that price. These Republicans sure do love spending other people's money.
They don't call it "The Republican Criminal Enterprise" for nothing
Wondering whether we in the PNW could use our tax $$ to deport some of the MAGA aholes here down to Texas?
Great idea! We can be more efficient by running full buses in both directions
Send them to florida, recommend they live right on the ocean
Crime pays a lot if you're a Republican!
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.”
I smell a racket
Disaster capitalism at work.
Aaaaaaaand how much does the state get in tax payer funds/year that is supposed to be used to help with these people and their plight in that state? I’m sure they get humanitarian aid.
That's some Republican level graft right there.
That's more than annual budget of most regions here!
At least they're out of texas?
I think you are being downvoted because your question could be interpreted two ways.
You have an arid, worthless dust bowl. What the fuck are you talking about?
"we don't have the resources to support these numbers of people" Spends 75 mil to bus them out of state
I simply don't get these ppl. They act like migrant workers are a drag on the economy when they're exactly the opposite.
They're racist what is there to get
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?