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Cruelty and embezzlement in one convenient package.
In April, Abbott began chartering busses to drop migrants off in other parts of the country, like Washington, DC, and Chicago, without giving those cities any notice — a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.
Texas had spent $12 million on the efforts as of August, the Texas Tribune reported at the time. By November, the amount spent busing migrants out of state had risen to $20 million, according to local outlet WFAA. >


a program that Texas has spent millions of dollars on.

If you looked at the numbers, the amount paid and how many asylum seekers they trafficked, they could have sent these folks to the Blue States on airplanes in business class. 
If you pried the lid off of this scam, I bet you discover a bus company owner who's a close personal friend to Abbott. >

I wonder if it's to do with air travel being so heavily regulated federally. Like if using airlines would open them up to federal crimes where the buses wouldn't. >

This isn’t really the point being made though :)
It’s the fact that the amount of money ‘spent’ minus the amount of money it actually functionally took them to transport them, equals a ton of money that went easily unaccounted for and likely into the personal pockets of whom ever kingpin was involved in the deal with Abbot.   It’s embezzlement. >

Yeah. They could have just given these poor people homes and jobs. But nope.....