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A bus carrying 41 migrants from Brownsville, Texas, arrived in Southern California on Saturday – the second such shipment from the region in two weeks.
The Texas-funded bus arrived at Union Station at 12:40 p.m. Intake of the migrants began shortly after they arrived with a legal orientation, according to Angelica Salas, executive director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
Members of the group, which included 11 children, came from Belize, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Salas said at a news conference.
City officials became aware of the upcoming arrival on Friday and mobilized by working with a coalition of nonprofit groups and faith-based organizations to accommodate the group, Mayor Karen Bass’s spokesperson Zach Seidl said in a statement.
The mayor’s office said it was “not formally notified” before learning that migrants were heading to the city, according to the statement.
“The City of Los Angeles believes in treating everyone with respect and dignity and will do so,” Seidl said.
Republican governors have been transporting migrants to several Democratic-led states and cities in protest of southern border security efforts by the federal government which they’ve said are inadequate.
