Where migrants go AFTER they cross the border: 21,000 Chinese nationals rushed to New York while others flocked to DC, L.A. and Chicago on buses from Texas

Texas has bussed more than 105,300 migrants to sanctuary cities around the US since it launched its program to move them out of the state. 

The first busload of migrants from the Lone Star State arrived in Washington, DC in April 2022 a few blocks from the US Capitol and just directly in from of the Fox News office where cameras were rolling.

Gov. Greg Abbott has now sent over 12,500 border crossers to the nation's capital.

New York City has received the most of all the destination cities, with over 39,100 sent to Gotham since August 2022. 

A whooping 32,200 migrants have been transported Chicago since August 2022.

The surprise arrival of migrants in those three cities caused chaos and shock, with local officials blasting Abbott for not giving them any advanced warning.

Texas has bused more than 105,000 migrants to so-called sanctuary cities since 2022, the governor's office announced Friday

A bus, carrying the migrants from Texas, arrives in Port Authority bus station of New York, United States on May 03, 2023

Alejandra Perez , her former partner Jader Castro and her children Sharlott Barrios, 9, and Juan Sebastian Castro, 5, who are all Colombian asylum seekers, are welcomed by a volunteer after arriving by bus in Chicago from Texas, in downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 25, 2023

Dozens of migrants families are seen arriving from Texas at the Port Authority Bus Terminal early Sept. 6, 2023

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began the migrant bus program in April 2022

New York officials accused the Republican governor of playing politics by sending migrants to Democratic-run cities and called his use of migrant to score points 'cruel.'

'Our city has been, and will always be, a city of immigrants that welcomes newcomers with open arms,' Mayor Eric Adams said at the time. 

But what a difference a few hundreds migrants makes.

Just two months later, Adams had declared an emergency, asking for help to handle the 61,000 migrants that were in the city's shelters in October 2022. 

Given that Texas has only bussed some 39,000 two years later, not all of the people in Big Apple shelters were sent there by Abbott.

Some 21,000 Chinese migrants have made their way to New York since October 2022, according to the New York Times. 

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, on Wednesday held a joint press conference with the mayors of Chicago and Denver, who are also struggling to deal with the surge in migrant arrivals

Migrants are seen arriving in Chicago, on a bus from Texas

At least 4.35 million migrants have entered Texas since 2021, according to US Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the US Border Patrol. These number reflect only those who have been stopped by federal agents, not so-called 'gotaways' or illegal immigrants who were not taken into custody

Chinese nationals are largely entering the country through Arizona and California, not the Lone Star State. 

As recent DailyMail.com reporting revealed, many of these Asian migrants have the money to travel from the border to their final destinations.

Unlike the hordes of South American migrants arriving in Texas, who often cross the border without a penny to their name.

Since Texas border cities like El Paso and Eagle Pass are not their final destination, local governments and non-profits have begrudgingly signed on to Gov. Abbott's bus program, which offers free rides who any migrant who volunteers. 

Migrants have to sign a waiver before boarding a charter out of Texas in cities like McAllen, Laredo, Brownsville, Del Rio, Eagle Pass and El Paso. 

From their, the migrants are dropped off to the city of their choice, which is most often New York, Chicago and Denver. 

The transportation has cost the state a staggering $86.1 million or about $1,650 per migrant from April 2022 to October 2023.

The Mile High City, which only started getting migrants in May --- has received 16,600 migrants from Abbott so far.

Abbott has sent 3,400 people to Philadelphia and another 1,500 to Los Angeles. 

North cities like New York and Chicago have whined that they could not handle the financial burden of caring for migrants, meanwhile a city like Eagle Pass, Texas, saw 23,000 migrants in just one week in December.

New York City has an annual budget of $100,000 billion compared to Eagle Pass, whose 28,000 residents operate on a budget of $18 million.

“Texas communities like Eagle Pass and El Paso should not have to shoulder the unprecedented surge of illegal immigration caused by President Biden’s reckless open border policies,' Abbott stated in September. 

Since Biden took office in 2021, more than 4.3 million migrants have been encountered by US Border Patrol crossing into Texas, federal statistics show.

The amount of migrants Abbott has bused out of the state is just 4% of all those who have crossed into the Lone Star State. 

And yet, Abbott has caused chaos and and dominated the national narrative with just 105,000 migrants.

'I think what he's trying to bring attention to is that fact that there is a crisis, and that it does need to be addressed,' Eric R. Welsh, a partner at Reeves Immigration Law Group in LA told DailyMail.com.

Despite lawsuits against the charter companies to try to stop the buses from arriving in New York and Chicago, Abbott has just changed his tactics, and started flying migrants into those cities. 

In a statement Friday, the governor promised to continue to 'fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border.'