On Thursday, the city and community groups welcomed and responded to the eighth bus of migrants from Texas. The bus, with 40 migrants from Bownsville, Texas aboard, arrived about 11:08 a.m.
It contained 14 families, including 12 children ranging in age from 9 months to 17 years old, according to the collective, which is an organization of immigrant-rights workers, faith organizations and providers that works with the city and county of Los Angeles.
A total of 323 asylum seekers from Texas have now arrived in Los Angeles since June 14, when the first bus dispatched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived at Union Station. Abbott has been orchestrating the buses from Brownsville to California, saying Texas’ border region is “overwhelmed” by immigrants crossing the Mexican border.
“Texas’ small border towns remain overwhelmed and overrun by the thousands of people illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico because of President Biden’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said in a statement after the first bus arrived in Los Angeles in June. “Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek to go to, particularly now that its city leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary city status. 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 steps up to do his job and secure the border.”
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