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Texas has spent more than $148 million busing migrants to other parts of the country

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Texas has transported 102,000 migrants to New York , Chicago , Denver , Philadelphia , Los Angeles and Washington , D.C. Gov. Greg Abbott started busing migrants to other states in April 2022 .

The cost of the program is less than half of one percent of Texas ' $321 billion two-year state budget.

Texas stopped honoring certain agreements, like dropping people before 6 a.m. or past 10 p.m., or letting assistance organizations know what time buses were arriving.

Burrow said these changes made it unsafe for migrants so she stopped the partnership with the state.

Abbott has said he'll keep transporting migrants to other states.

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