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.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.