The state of Texas has spent more than $845,000 flying migrants to New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago.
According to documents The Texas Newsroom obtained through a public records request, the state has used four airplanes to transport a total of 884 migrants.
The flights, which transported migrants after they’d been apprehended and released by federal authorities along the Southern border, are part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s $10 billion Operation Lone Star border initiative.the state has spent over $148 million busing migrants since April 2022. Gov. Abbott is also flying migrants outside of border communities like Eagle Pass and El Paso.Rep.
That flight carried 122 passengers and cost the state $135,000 — that’s about $1,107 per person. North Carolina-based iAero Airways was contracted for the flight, according to the invoices.The Texas Newsroom recently obtained three more previously unreported invoices.
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