A bus filled with migrants arrived in Los Angeles from Texas on Wednesday as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's effort to bring attention to the southern border by transporting migrants to left-leaning cities.
Abbott didn't say how many migrants were taken to California's largest city, but noted that the LA has been run as a so-called "sanctuary city" for years.
"Texas just dropped off the 1st bus of migrants in Los Angeles," Abbott said in a news release. "Small Texas border towns remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border. LA is a city migrants seek to go to, particularly now its leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary status."
A bus with around 30 people was dropped off at St. Anthony’s Croatian Church in Chinatown, FOX Los Angeles reported.Families from Latin America and Haiti were welcomed by several people and organizations. They are expected to be transferred to shelter locations.
Abbott has taken a more aggressive approach to border enforcement than his fellow governors and has made the transportation of migrants to Democratic-run cities a part of his effort to secure the border and provide relief for border towns with scarce resources.
