Another bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, marking the 16th such arrival since June.
“A bus with migrants from Texas arrived today at Union Station around 2 p.m.,” stated Zach Seidl, deputy mayor of communications for Mayor Karen Bass. “This is the sixteenth bus to arrive. The city has been working with various departments, the county, nonprofit organizations, and faith partners to implement a plan established earlier this year. When we learned about the bus yesterday, we immediately activated our plan.”
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights confirmed on X, formerly known as Twitter, that a bus with 38 asylum seekers from Texas had arrived. The group consists of 23 adults and 15 children from Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Venezuela.
CHIRLA highlighted that “some of them have gone days without eating.”
CHIRLA is a member of the L.A. Welcomes Collective, which is a network of nonprofit organizations, faith groups, and city and county services that respond to the arrival of migrant buses.
“Asylum-seekers are human beings who have experienced trauma in their home countries and during their journey to the safe haven they call the USA. They are in distress and require our support,” stated CHIRLA. “As a nation, we have shown kindness to strangers in the past, and we will continue to do so.”
Last week, the L.A. Welcomes Collective, along with the city and county of Los Angeles, responded to the arrival of migrants.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been organizing these trips as part of Operation Lone Star, citing an “overwhelmed” border region due to immigrants crossing from Mexico. OLS is a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department along the southern border between Texas and Mexico.
Abbott emphasized, “Texas is securing the border in President Biden’s absence.”
“Texas’ small border towns continue to be overwhelmed and overrun by the thousands of people illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico, as a result of President Biden’s failure to secure the border,” stated Abbott in a June statement after the first bus arrived in Los Angeles.
“Los Angeles is a major destination for migrants, especially now that it has declared itself a sanctuary city. Our border communities are on the front lines of President Biden’s border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until he takes action and secures the border,” he added.
Mayor Karen Bass voiced her frustration with Abbott’s lack of communication regarding the shipments. During an interview with KNX, she stated that if Abbott’s concerns were genuine, someone from the Texas government would have informed and coordinated with Los Angeles.
“We only hear about the buses when they’re already on their way. We have no information about who will be on the bus, how many people there will be, or what condition they will be in when they arrive,” she said. “Sometimes they haven’t had any food or enough water.”
The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion on June 9 to formally establish the city as a sanctuary city.
Last month, the council approved a motion for the City Attorney’s Office to investigate any potential crimes that occurred on or before June 14, when Abbott sent the first shipment of 42 migrants to Los Angeles.
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