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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Texas spent more than $12m bussing migrants to New York and DC, documents show

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The price tag of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s much politicised campaign of sending migrants arriving on the southern border to Washington, DC and New York City has cost the state $12m, CNN reported.

Since the Republican governor announced the costly program in April, the Lone Star state has reportedly doled out $12,707,720.92 to Wynne Transportation, the charter service tasked with ferrying the recently arrived migrants to the sanctuary cities.

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