Even a Catholic Charities group from Texas arrived to help. The route to asylum for the migrants is still unclear.
, who slammed the action as a “cheap” political stunt using humans as “pawns.”
City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez and other officials and immigration rights advocates address the media outside St. Anthony’s Croatian Parish Center in Los Angeles where 42 migrants seeking asylum, including children, were being attended to on Wednesday, June 14, 2023 after a 23 hour bus trip from the Texas border with no food or water. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass slammed the action by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a “cheap” political stunt using humans as “pawns.
The Haitian Bridge Alliance was one of the nonprofit groups offering assistance to the migrants. Six of the migrants are of Haitian descent, including a family of three, two adult cousins and one adult. All told, 42 immigrants — among them said to be eight children, including babies and toddlers — were dropped off at the depot, said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of communications for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights .“We are meeting their hopes for safety and protection here at this welcome center, and by providing them with legal information, including a “Know Your Rights” presentation — giving them the information they need to protect themselves,” Toczylowski said.
“It is abhorrent that an American elected official is using human beings as pawns in his cheap political games,” Bass said in a statement. “For many people in Los Angeles who have been advocating for the city to become an official sanctuary city for many years, this is a long overdue process,” Councilmember Nithya Raman said. Raman introduced the motion with council members Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martínez
The admission of responsibility — five days after the first flight touched down in California’s capital — only served to heighten tensions between DeSantis and Newsom, his frequent political sparring partner.
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