2nd bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas arrives in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — A bus carrying migrants from a Texas border metropolis arrived in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday for the second time in lower than three weeks.

The workplace of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was not formally notified however turned conscious on Friday of the bus dispatched from Brownsville, Texas, to L.A. Union Station, Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl mentioned in an announcement.

“The City of Los Angeles believes in treating everyone with respect and dignity and will do so,” he mentioned.

The bus arrived round 12:40 p.m., and the 41 asylum-seekers on board had been welcomed by a collective of religion and immigrant rights teams. Eleven kids had been on the bus, based on an announcement by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.

The asylum seekers got here from Cuba, Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. They obtained water, meals, clothes and preliminary authorized immigration help at St. Anthony’s Croatian Parish Center and church.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesperson for the coalition, mentioned the group “was less stressed and less chaotic than the previous time.” He mentioned most had been picked up by household within the space and appeared to have had sandwiches and water, in contrast to the primary time.

Los Angeles was not the ultimate vacation spot for six individuals who wanted to fly to Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland, he mentioned.

The metropolis obtained a bus carrying 42 migrants from Texas on June 14. Many had been from Latin American nations, together with Honduras and Venezuela, and so they weren’t supplied with water or meals.

Bass mentioned on the time that the town wouldn’t be swayed by “petty politicians playing with human lives.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott mentioned he despatched the bus to Los Angeles as a result of California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants, extending protections to individuals residing within the nation illegally.

It was unclear if Abbott despatched the newest bus. A cellphone message to his workplace was not instantly returned.