Washington— Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced his state had started busing migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Denver, Colorado, an expansion of a controversial operation to transport migrant adults and families released from federal custody to Democratic-led cities. Abbo...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 3-year-old child riding one of Texas’ migrant buses died while on the way to Chicago, officials said Friday, the first time the state has announced a death since it began shuttling thousands of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border last year...
RELATED: New York City sues bus companies that Texas hired to transport migrants Suburbs put brakes on migrant bus arrivals Mayor: Buses dropping off NY-bound migrants in NJ The program sends migrants to other U.S. cities as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” — a multib...
Texas City Stops Migrant Busing as Venezuelans Pushed Back to Mexico More Reuters Jean Carlos Quevedo, 3, from Columbia reaches for a pair of shoes in the clothes donation area at a shelter run by Colores United in Deming, New Mexico, U.S., October 20, 2022. REUTERS/...
Records: Abbott’s migrant busing cost Texas $124 million AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas has spent more than $124 million sending buses of migrants to sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar. According to documents Nexstar obtained, Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more ...
A Texas jury on Friday found a driver guilty of intoxication manslaughter over the deaths of eight people who were hit by an SUV that plowed into a crowded bus stop outside a migrant shelter on the U.S.-Mexico border.The verdict was handed down by a Cameron County jury more than a yea...
Authorities are trying to determine what caused the death of a 3-year-old girl who was traveling on a Texas-funded bus transporting asylum seekers to Chicago on Thursday. Preliminary autopsy results from Friday proved inconclusive, Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon said. "The Marion Co. Coroner'...
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But there are signs Abbott’s program is having an impact in Texas. During the time Operation Lone Star has been in effect, Texas has seen a 6.9% increase in the total monthly migrant encounters reported at the border. During that time, Arizona has seen a 36.3% increase, Califo...
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