LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Another bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Los Angeles Wednesday, the 11th since June 14, according to the L.A. Welcomes Collective and the mayor's office.
In an exclusive interview with KNX In Depth, Mayor Bass said that Texas officials are sending these buses for the sake of a 'political ploy.'
"If it was sincere, it would be coordinated, and it is not coordinated at all," said the mayor.
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Bass said her team is only told about the incoming bus once it is already on the way and is not made aware of how many people or the conditions on the bus, saying, "Sometimes they haven't had any food, barely had enough water."
The most recent bus included 21 adults and 14 children between the ages of 2 - 17, and Bass said, "I think that it's quite despicable."
According to The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, the bus arrived around 10:50 AM with 35 asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Russia and Venezuela.
"In Los Angeles, 35 asylum seekers sent from Brownsville, Texas, Wednesday, were shown compassion and treated with dignity, respect as they start their long journey to settle in our community," CHIRLA posted on X.
A spokesman for Mayor Bass, said in a statement:
"The city has continued to work with city departments, the county, and a coalition of nonprofit organizations, in addition to our faith partners, to execute a plan set in place earlier this year... when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been orchestrating the trips, 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."
The L.A. City Council approved a motion Wednesday morning calling for the City Attorney's Office to investigate whether crimes were committed on or before June 14, when Abbott sent 42 migrants to Los Angeles.
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