This weekend, California immigration authorities reported that a bus carrying 41 immigrants, including Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans, arrived in the city of Los Angeles from the city of Brownsville, Texas on the border with Mexico.
The Texas state-funded bus arrived at Union Station at 12:40 p.m. Admission of immigrants began shortly after they arrived with a legal orientation, said Angélica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. of the Angels.
In a statement, Salas explained that the members of the group, which included 11 children, came from Belize, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. On top of that, the mayor’s office said she had “not been formally notified” before learning the migrants were heading to the city.
During this month of June, at least 36 immigrants were transferred from the city of El Paso, Texas to Sacramento, California, under irregular circumstances by the Republican Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, with the promise that when they arrived The United States authorities would provide the Californian city with work and shelter.
In this sense, a group of immigrants, mostly Colombians and Venezuelans, who were left in the city of Sacramento, California, by various representatives, the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). According to one of the illegal immigrants, in a statement to CNN television, he agreed to go to California because the authorities offered him a job.
In parallel, Amelia Johnson, spokesperson for FDEM, stressed from the beginning of this new measure that the relocation of these immigrants to California is voluntary. “We were deceived by the people who provided the flight service. They offered us work and housing,” the Venezuelan migrant told CNN.
Despite the controversy, the governors of Florida and Texas will continue sending immigrants to California. Daniel Tse, coordinator of the Asylum Taskforce group, claimed that several migrant rights organizations are not motivated by or aligned with the political motives of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s bus campaign.
With information from CNN
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