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Posted: 2/21/2024 2:35:03 PM EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-spent-nearly-150m-bussing-migrants-sanctuary-cities-report

Texas has spent nearly $150M bussing migrants to 'sanctuary' cities: report
Last month, Texas Gov Gregg Abbott announced that Texas sent over 100K migrants to sanctuary cities such as New York Chicago and Washington, DC

By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published February 21, 2024 11:17am EST

Texas has spent nearly $150 million of taxpayer funds bussing illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities since Gov. Gregg Abbott launched the controversial initiative in April 2022, according to a new report.

Abbott, a Republican, started the program to relieve Texas of the influx of migrants who illegally cross the southern border and are then released into the state. It was also launched to protest the Biden administration’s rollback of some pandemic-era border restrictions and to let "sanctuary" cities bear the brunt of their open border policies.

Last month, Abbott announced that the state has now sent over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities across the United States to relieve what he said are overwhelmed border states. Arizona also began bussing migrants in 2022, while Florida has also done so, as well as flying migrants to liberal strongholds like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The bussing of migrants is part of Texas’ Operation Lone Star, a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department to secure the border. Abbott began bussing migrants to Washington, D.C., and then expanded to cities including New York City, Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago. Additionally, the state has sent flights to some cities.

The practice has proven to be enormously controversial with those liberal cities and with the Biden administration, who have accused Texas of deliberately causing disruption with a political stunt.

However, the initiative has come with a hefty price tag with a report from NPR’s The Texas Newsroom – citing records obtained under the Texas Public Information Act – calculating the cost at more than $148 million as of Jan. 24.

Ray Perryman, the president of The Perryman Group, a Texas-based economic research company, said that the $148 million amounts to about half of one percent of Texas' $321 billion two-year state budget.

"It certainly is a great deal of money to be spent," Perryman told The Texas Newsroom.

"These dollars ... are not a huge percentage of the overall budget so it's certainly something that could be done," Perryman said. "I think the question is, 'Should it be done?'"

While announcing last month that Texas had transported over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities, Abbott said he had no intention of stopping the initiative.

"Until Biden reverses course on his open border policies, Texas will continue transporting migrants to these cities," Abbott said on X. "We will not back down on our efforts to secure the border."

Abbott has been reinforcing efforts to stop migrants from crossing into Texas by erecting razor wire and denying federal agents access to Shelby Park. The actions have, in part, led to a sharp decline in border crossings throughout January.

Overall, arrests by Border Patrol along the southern border dropped 50% in January compared to December.

Sanctuary cities, meanwhile, have complained about the bussing of migrants, with New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying the crisis will "destroy" the Big Apple. Adams has said the state has taken in 170,000 migrants since the spring of 2022 and the cost of feeding and housing them will be at least $10 billion.
Chinese migrants speak to a border patrol officer before being processed
Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.

Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month pleaded with Abbott to stop sending migrants to Chicago due to incoming winter storms. Abbott has sent over 30,000 migrants to Chicago since the middle of 2022.

The numbers seen by those cities are a fraction of the millions of migrants that have hit the southern border. There were 2.4 million migrant encounters in FY23 alone and over 302,000 in December.

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.


I bet you people would vounteer to transport them.

Let's see NYC sue thousands or hundreds of volunteers...

Better yet, have texas set up legal defense funds for the bus companies doing the transportation.

I mean, if we're gonna waste taxpayer's money, let's waste it on something like this.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:36:51 PM EDT
[#1]
It’s worth it
Money well wasted
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:37:32 PM EDT
[#2]
FPNI
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:37:45 PM EDT
[#3]
Every Penny.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:38:06 PM EDT
[#4]
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+1,000

Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:38:20 PM EDT
[#5]
Send more
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:38:32 PM EDT
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Damn that FPNI thing.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:38:35 PM EDT
[#7]
Worth every penny. The money the state would spend on them is way greater than the bus ticket. Billions upon billions.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:38:47 PM EDT
[#8]
Yes, but how much have they saved bussing the illegals?
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:39:03 PM EDT
[#9]
Far cheaper than housing/feeding them.  I applaud the Gov. the fiscal and political astuteness.

For contrast, New York City has spent over $10 billion so far on this crisis.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:39:31 PM EDT
[#10]
Compared to the cost of hosting illegals (support and societal costs), $150m is a bargain
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:39:32 PM EDT
[#11]
They virtue signaled for it, they asked for it. Let them reap the rewards.

Send more.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:39:50 PM EDT
[#12]
Overall, that's saving millions, compared to what it costs for them to stay. Rollin, rollin', rollin, keep those busses rollin'!!
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:41:00 PM EDT
[#13]
Money well spent.  Abbot took a regional border problem ment to overwhelm Texas and turn it blue into a national problem.  All that money sending those busses to sanctuary cities made it a national problem that daily makes the headlines and hurts the dems, who are starting to fight each other.  Praise Governor Abbot.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:41:02 PM EDT
[#14]
Good investment
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:41:43 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:42:39 PM EDT
[#16]
As A tax paying Texan,  Fuck yeah.  Keep it up.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:43:29 PM EDT
[#17]
Pennies compared to the long term costs
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:43:43 PM EDT
[#18]
Spend more. Keep going.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:44:32 PM EDT
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Equivalent to only $5 per Texan.

Seems like an absolute bargain.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:44:55 PM EDT
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If it cost 150m to bus them all, how much would it have cost to keep them in Texas?

I can't imagine that not sending them on is cheaper, even just for the first year.

It's money well spent
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:45:36 PM EDT
[#21]
Sure, but you know it's just giving NY and IL more federal representatives, right?
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:46:21 PM EDT
[#22]
Do they not send them to DC because that would get them a response they want?
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:46:30 PM EDT
[#23]
They don't think "Sanctuary" be like it is, but it do.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:46:46 PM EDT
[#24]
Now find a way for the government to subsidize the bus trip.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:47:26 PM EDT
[#25]
I know a cheaper solution but the DEI illegal alien huggers would REALLY hate it.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:47:53 PM EDT
[#26]
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-spent-nearly-150m-bussing-migrants-sanctuary-cities-report

Texas has spent nearly $150M bussing migrants to 'sanctuary' cities: report
Last month, Texas Gov Gregg Abbott announced that Texas sent over 100K migrants to sanctuary cities such as New York Chicago and Washington, DC

By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published February 21, 2024 11:17am EST

Texas has spent nearly $150 million of taxpayer funds bussing illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities since Gov. Gregg Abbott launched the controversial initiative in April 2022, according to a new report.

Abbott, a Republican, started the program to relieve Texas of the influx of migrants who illegally cross the southern border and are then released into the state. It was also launched to protest the Biden administration's rollback of some pandemic-era border restrictions and to let "sanctuary" cities bear the brunt of their open border policies.

Last month, Abbott announced that the state has now sent over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities across the United States to relieve what he said are overwhelmed border states. Arizona also began bussing migrants in 2022, while Florida has also done so, as well as flying migrants to liberal strongholds like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The bussing of migrants is part of Texas' Operation Lone Star, a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department to secure the border. Abbott began bussing migrants to Washington, D.C., and then expanded to cities including New York City, Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago. Additionally, the state has sent flights to some cities.

The practice has proven to be enormously controversial with those liberal cities and with the Biden administration, who have accused Texas of deliberately causing disruption with a political stunt.

However, the initiative has come with a hefty price tag with a report from NPR's The Texas Newsroom   citing records obtained under the Texas Public Information Act   calculating the cost at more than $148 million as of Jan. 24.

Ray Perryman, the president of The Perryman Group, a Texas-based economic research company, said that the $148 million amounts to about half of one percent of Texas' $321 billion two-year state budget.

"It certainly is a great deal of money to be spent," Perryman told The Texas Newsroom.

"These dollars ... are not a huge percentage of the overall budget so it's certainly something that could be done," Perryman said. "I think the question is, 'Should it be done?'"

While announcing last month that Texas had transported over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities, Abbott said he had no intention of stopping the initiative.

"Until Biden reverses course on his open border policies, Texas will continue transporting migrants to these cities," Abbott said on X. "We will not back down on our efforts to secure the border."

Abbott has been reinforcing efforts to stop migrants from crossing into Texas by erecting razor wire and denying federal agents access to Shelby Park. The actions have, in part, led to a sharp decline in border crossings throughout January.

Overall, arrests by Border Patrol along the southern border dropped 50% in January compared to December.

Sanctuary cities, meanwhile, have complained about the bussing of migrants, with New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying the crisis will "destroy" the Big Apple. Adams has said the state has taken in 170,000 migrants since the spring of 2022 and the cost of feeding and housing them will be at least $10 billion.
Chinese migrants speak to a border patrol officer before being processed
Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.

Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month pleaded with Abbott to stop sending migrants to Chicago due to incoming winter storms. Abbott has sent over 30,000 migrants to Chicago since the middle of 2022.

The numbers seen by those cities are a fraction of the millions of migrants that have hit the southern border. There were 2.4 million migrant encounters in FY23 alone and over 302,000 in December.

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.


I bet you people would vounteer to transport them.

Let's see NYC sue thousands or hundreds of volunteers...

Better yet, have texas set up legal defense funds for the bus companies doing the transportation.

I mean, if we're gonna waste taxpayer's money, let's waste it on something like this.
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What would it cost them if they left them in TX?  There's a cost for that.

Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:48:14 PM EDT
[#27]
That's good, my Spanish is shit anyways.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:48:39 PM EDT
[#28]
I think we should not bus them to NY, this is just wrong.
Send them there by the train load, pack them in tight, fuck NY.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:50:28 PM EDT
[#29]
I hope this influx of illegals crushes  Chicago and NYC beyond repair. I cannot extend enough fuck to both of these shit hole cities.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:51:26 PM EDT
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They virtue signaled for it, they asked for it. Let them reap the rewards.

Send more.
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This. Well, I'd prefer they go back home, but since that isn't happening, this is fine. I'm glad I don't live in Cook county, but I'm still too close for comfort.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:52:03 PM EDT
[#31]
I’d gladly drive them to North Dakota and tell them it’s NY. Over and over. The money would go further buying alligators and Crocs from Florida to stock the Rio Grande. And Hippos
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:52:07 PM EDT
[#32]
Still cheaper than leaving them to pillage in Texas.

And ain't it just like the press to bitch about how much money is being spent to bus them somewhere besides Texas while ignoring the massive drowning costs of handing them food, shelter, medical care, legal representation, cell phones and education?
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:52:25 PM EDT
[#33]
So another attempt trying to make Abbott/TX look bad for spending $150million while the Democrat mayors/governors in the destination states have been crying for billions in dollars from the federal government to help support the small numbers of illegals they've received. Sounds like Abbott is saving the state money overall.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:53:02 PM EDT
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As A tax paying Texan,  Fuck yeah.  Keep it up.
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Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:53:15 PM EDT
[#35]
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Overall, that's saving millions, compared to what it costs for them to stay. Rollin, rollin', rollin, keep those busses rollin'!!
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Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:55:58 PM EDT
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Worth every penny. The money the state would spend on them is way greater than the bus ticket. Billions upon billions.
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Each bus load is about $5000 to the bus company to get them out of Texas.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:57:11 PM EDT
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The money to deal with the illegals has to be spent one way or another, so f**k the Dem-controlled "sanctuary cities."
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:57:45 PM EDT
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Compared to the cost of hosting illegals (support and societal costs), $150m is a bargain
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Just thinking outside the box...what happens if we spend nothing to house them?
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 2:57:54 PM EDT
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Do they not send them to DC because that would get them a response they want?
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NYC, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and LA
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:00:28 PM EDT
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As A tax paying Texan,  Fuck yeah.  Keep it up.
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Absolutely this!
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:01:26 PM EDT
[#41]
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Worth every penny. The money the state would spend on them is way greater than the bus ticket. Billions upon billions.
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Bingo, apart from the obvious (keeping them out or sending them back), this is Texas' most cost effective means of dealing with the problem.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:01:53 PM EDT
[#42]
Bussing them out was perhaps the most brilliant political move of this century.   Money well spent.  

Just a few weeks ago the mayor of Chicago was on CNN ripping Biden a new one for not sending help.  They are literally eating themselves.

I do wonder what the endgame is though, and how long it will take to get there.


Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:05:51 PM EDT
[#43]
*looks at our budget surplus*

Eh, I’m okay with that spend.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:07:14 PM EDT
[#44]
Quoted:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-spent-nearly-150m-bussing-migrants-sanctuary-cities-report

Texas has spent nearly $150M bussing migrants to 'sanctuary' cities: report
Last month, Texas Gov Gregg Abbott announced that Texas sent over 100K migrants to sanctuary cities such as New York Chicago and Washington, DC

By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published February 21, 2024 11:17am EST

Texas has spent nearly $150 million of taxpayer funds bussing illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities since Gov. Gregg Abbott launched the controversial initiative in April 2022, according to a new report.

Abbott, a Republican, started the program to relieve Texas of the influx of migrants who illegally cross the southern border and are then released into the state. It was also launched to protest the Biden administration’s rollback of some pandemic-era border restrictions and to let "sanctuary" cities bear the brunt of their open border policies.

Last month, Abbott announced that the state has now sent over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities across the United States to relieve what he said are overwhelmed border states. Arizona also began bussing migrants in 2022, while Florida has also done so, as well as flying migrants to liberal strongholds like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The bussing of migrants is part of Texas’ Operation Lone Star, a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department to secure the border. Abbott began bussing migrants to Washington, D.C., and then expanded to cities including New York City, Denver, Philadelphia and Chicago. Additionally, the state has sent flights to some cities.

The practice has proven to be enormously controversial with those liberal cities and with the Biden administration, who have accused Texas of deliberately causing disruption with a political stunt.

However, the initiative has come with a hefty price tag with a report from NPR’s The Texas Newsroom – citing records obtained under the Texas Public Information Act – calculating the cost at more than $148 million as of Jan. 24.

Ray Perryman, the president of The Perryman Group, a Texas-based economic research company, said that the $148 million amounts to about half of one percent of Texas' $321 billion two-year state budget.

"It certainly is a great deal of money to be spent," Perryman told The Texas Newsroom.

"These dollars ... are not a huge percentage of the overall budget so it's certainly something that could be done," Perryman said. "I think the question is, 'Should it be done?'"

While announcing last month that Texas had transported over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities, Abbott said he had no intention of stopping the initiative.

"Until Biden reverses course on his open border policies, Texas will continue transporting migrants to these cities," Abbott said on X. "We will not back down on our efforts to secure the border."

Abbott has been reinforcing efforts to stop migrants from crossing into Texas by erecting razor wire and denying federal agents access to Shelby Park. The actions have, in part, led to a sharp decline in border crossings throughout January.

Overall, arrests by Border Patrol along the southern border dropped 50% in January compared to December.

Sanctuary cities, meanwhile, have complained about the bussing of migrants, with New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying the crisis will "destroy" the Big Apple. Adams has said the state has taken in 170,000 migrants since the spring of 2022 and the cost of feeding and housing them will be at least $10 billion.
Chinese migrants speak to a border patrol officer before being processed
Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.

Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker last month pleaded with Abbott to stop sending migrants to Chicago due to incoming winter storms. Abbott has sent over 30,000 migrants to Chicago since the middle of 2022.

The numbers seen by those cities are a fraction of the millions of migrants that have hit the southern border. There were 2.4 million migrant encounters in FY23 alone and over 302,000 in December.

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
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Both New York City and Chicago have put restrictions on charter buses coming to their cities and Adams has filed a $700 million lawsuit against bus and transportation companies involved in migrant transport.


I bet you people would vounteer to transport them.

Let's see NYC sue thousands or hundreds of volunteers...

Better yet, have texas set up legal defense funds for the bus companies doing the transportation.

I mean, if we're gonna waste taxpayer's money, let's waste it on something like this.
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Worth every fucking penny
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:09:42 PM EDT
[#45]
So:
$150M to transport them, or
$300M++ to keep and support them.

Seems like a good GREAT deal to me.

So the liberals are saying that a bus ticket is MORE than a lifetime of state funding for support of an illegal???   Really???

Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:10:46 PM EDT
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This... one thing I'm actually happy to see my tax dollars going to.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:11:36 PM EDT
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So:
$150M to transport them, or
$300M++ to keep and support them.

Seems like a good GREAT deal to me.

So the liberals are saying that a bus ticket is MORE than a lifetime of state funding for illegal support???   Really???
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The number is orders of magnitude more than 300M
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:13:11 PM EDT
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Worth every penny. The money the state would spend on them is way greater than the bus ticket. Billions upon billions.
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100% true.  

This is literally the greatest cost avoidance move ever made.

Beside that, there's no number big enough to account for the lives of people they will rob, attack and kill.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:13:29 PM EDT
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The number is orders of magnitude more than 300M
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So:
$150M to transport them, or
$300M++ to keep and support them.

Seems like a good GREAT deal to me.

So the liberals are saying that a bus ticket is MORE than a lifetime of state funding for illegal support???   Really???


The number is orders of magnitude more than 300M

I agree -- added the "++", but could have *easily* made that $3 billion, with complete confidence.

The cost of a bus ticket wouldn't even cover a single month of support for an illegal, much less years.
Link Posted: 2/21/2024 3:25:57 PM EDT
[#50]
Where are the Abbott haters???
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