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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,561 posts)
Tue Aug 30, 2022, 08:12 PM Aug 2022

Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing program costing Texas $12 million

Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing program has cost $12 million since it began, amounting to an average of about $1,300 per person per ride to destinations on the East Coast.

The migrant busing program under Operation Lone Star has provided transportation free of cost to 9,200 migrants since it began in April, delivering them to New York City and Washington, D.C.

The Texas Division of Emergency Management told the El Paso Times that, as of mid-August, the state agency "has paid over $12 million transporting migrants processed and released by the federal government in Texas border communities." That works out to $1,304.35 per trip.

Comparatively, a one-way, same-day ticket on a Greyhound bus from El Paso costs $291 to New York City and $324 to Washington, D.C. Same-day flights to either destination are under $400.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gov-greg-abbotts-migrant-busing-183417595.html

He doesn't care. It ain't his money.

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Gov. Greg Abbott's migrant busing program costing Texas $12 million (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 OP
The other states should be sending that ahole bills as well. Thomas Hurt Aug 2022 #1
Likely using.. raising2moredems Aug 2022 #2
Original article from the El Paso Times: TexasTowelie Aug 2022 #3
$1400 ripoff white cloud Aug 2022 #4

white cloud

(2,567 posts)
4. $1400 ripoff
Wed Aug 31, 2022, 03:07 PM
Aug 2022

Is what I heard Wynne transportation was getting paid. Wonder who owns Wynne and why was it picked over Greyhound

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