And then there were 113. That is how many illegal aliens have been bussed to Los Angeles from Texas. A third migrant bus arrived in Los Angeles Thursday afternoon with 30 passengers, nine of them children.
Is Governor Newsom on vacation or maybe out in the country campaigning for Old Yeller? I haven’t heard any squawking from him about how horrible red state governors are who send illegal aliens to his state. Nonetheless, Newsom has declared California to be a sanctuary state and Karen Bass, the Mayor of Los Angeles, proudly proclaims that Los Angeles is a sanctuary city. So, what’s the problem? All are welcome, right?
Thirty illegal aliens at a time should be easily absorbed in the city’s services network for illegal immigrants. Just think if California received the numbers that Texas does every single day. I guess it would be a-ok then, but if they are bussed in by Governor Abbott, then it is bad. They are voluntarily moved to locations outside of Texas. They are essentially given free transportation to where they want to go.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesperson for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) admitted the migrants appeared to be in good health and even though the bus allegedly had a mechanical malfunction, the air-conditioning was working just fine. CHIRLA is a member of the L.A. Welcomes Collective, a network of immigrant rights, legal services providers and faith organizations which has been providing support services to the migrants. Networks like this benefit from the illegal immigration crisis. “We didn’t have anybody check in with first responders, which were available,” Cabrera said in describing the condition of the newly arrived migrants.
The truth is that the inhumane treatment comes from human traffickers and coyotes who help the migrants get to the border to cross onto American soil. Once in the United States, they receive the services they need. Migrant buses from Texas are stocked with food and water for the passengers. If they are ill, they receive medical attention, not put on a bus to be transferred out of state.
Local city and county officials and volunteers were alerted that the bus was coming.
Zach Seidl, spokesperson for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, said in a statement that the city continues to work with the county and a coalition of nonprofit organizations “to execute a plan set in place earlier this year.”
“As we have before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan,” Seidl said.
Volunteers had expected 35 migrants to arrive in L.A. from Brownsville, Texas, but later were told that five people from Venezuela were dropped off in Salome, Ariz., and the rest of the group continued on to Southern California, Cabrera said.
The 30 remaining migrants who made it to L.A. were originally from Venezuela, Mexico, Haiti and China, he said. The group included nine children ranging in age from less than 1 year old to 9 years old.
As of 4:15 p.m., Cabrera said, most of the new arrivals had been reunited with a family member or friend, with plans to stay with them at least temporarily. He expected that the remaining migrants, who were waiting at St. Anthony’s Croatian Catholic Church, would be reunited with someone they knew by the end of the day.
It looks like Governor Abbott is sending a migrant bus to L.A. every two weeks or so. One arrived on June 14, and the second bus arrived on July 1. That tracks with the third bus arriving Thursday afternoon. Not only are the numbers miniscule coming by bus from Texas but they are well-spaced out, too.
The City of Brownsville (Texas) sent information on the illegal aliens before the bus arrived. How’s that for cooperation?
Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, which is a member of the L.A. Welcomes Collective, said in a statement Thursday that the center is “proud to offer legal support to people arriving in Los Angeles.”
“We are grateful to the City of Brownsville for sending information in advance about this bus so we can better prepare to welcome them,” Toczylowski said. “We will continue to work with our community partners to receive migrants with dignity and ensure their legal needs are met.”
Let those agencies in California handle some of the overload that is in Texas. Governor Abbott has made it clear that he will not stop until the border is secure.
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