Global Courant
A bus carrying 44 migrants from Texas arrived the fifth at Union Station Saturday morning according to Los Angeles officials, one such busload was shipped by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in just over a month.
The bus of migrants arrived in downtown Los Angeles at around 11:30 a.m. from Brownsville, Texas, where they were met by members of the LA Welcome Collective, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Central American Resource Center-Los Angeles, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and others.
The Texas governor’s move comes just four days after another bus he sent — carrying 44 migrants from Venezuela, China, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Chile and Brazil — arrived at Union Station from Brownsville.
“The city has continued to work with city departments, the county and a coalition of nonprofits, in addition to our partners of faith, to implement a plan created earlier this year,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. “As we have done before, when we discovered the bus yesterday, we activated our plan.”
The three other buses arrived on June 12, July 1 and July 13 with 42, 41 and 30 migrants respectively.
Texas has funded the transportation of more than 22,000 migrants to Democratic-led cities across the US, including New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia, as part of Abbott’s protest against federal immigration policies. To date, he has raised $415,397 in donations to help pay for the transfer of migrants, according to the governor’s website.