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A busload of migrants arrived in Los Angeles from Texas on Wednesday as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s effort to highlight the southern border by ferrying migrants into leftist cities.
Abbott didn’t say how many migrants were brought into California’s largest city, but noted that LA has been run as a so-called “sanctuary city” for years.
“Texas just dropped off the first migrant bus in Los Angeles,” Abbott said in a press release. “Small border towns in Texas remain overrun and overwhelmed as Biden refuses to secure the border. LA is a city that migrants want to move to, especially now that its leaders have approved its self-declared refugee status.”
A bus carrying about 30 people was dropped off at St. Anthony’s Croatian Church in Chinatown, FOX Los Angeles reported.
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Families from Latin America and Haiti were welcomed by different people and organizations. They are expected to be transferred to reception locations.
Abbott has taken a more aggressive approach to border enforcement than his fellow governors and has made transporting migrants to democratically-run cities part of his efforts to secure the border and provide relief to scarcely resourced border towns.
Many have been taken to Chicago, New York City, Washington DC and Philadelphia, where officials there have had to struggle to accommodate the thousands of migrants being sent there.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams was criticized earlier this month for suggesting that migrants should be housed in private homes with spare rooms.
A busload of migrants arrived in Philadelphia from Texas in May. Texas Governor Greg Abbott transported migrants from his state to Los Angeles on Wednesday. (City of Philadelphia, File)
Fox News Digital has contacted the office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Texas has transported 21,600 migrants to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities since last spring, when the bus strategy began.
Abbott’s move came when California Governor Gavin Newsom floated the idea of prosecuting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also seeking the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential race.
Last week, some migrants were flown from Florida to Sacramento, California, in a private jet with transportation arranged by the state of Florida, Amelia Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said last week.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating possible “kidnapping” charges against DeSantis.
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Newsom said he recently met with Sheriff Javier Salazar of Bexar County, Texas, to “compare notes” on possible criminal charges against DeSantis. In September 2022, 49 migrants traveled from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, a trip funded by the state of Florida.
“Not only do I think it’s outrageous, I think there are reasons, not just to investigate, but to possibly take some kind of responsibility,” Newsom told FOX Los Angeles. “The sheriff wants to hear that from the Texas district attorney, and we’re checking with the state’s Justice Department.”
