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Texas sends 12th migrant bus to LA; city may seek legal
action despite approving sanctuary status
Los Angeles city council members voted on June 9 to formally establish the city as a sanctuary city
By Greg Wehner Fox News

Published September 4, 2023 3:41pm EDT

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Texas sent a 12th bus filled with migrants to Los Angeles, California, which arrived on
Monday morning, nearly a week after city leaders voted to pursue legal action against the
Lone Star State.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s office said the bus arrived at about 7:15 a.m. on Monday
at Union Station.

FOX 11 in LA reported that the bus was carrying 42 migrants, which included 23 men, 20
women and 21 children, all from Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Russia and Venezuela.

TEXAS SENDS 10TH MIGRANT BUS TO LOS ANGELES AFTER MAYOR DECRIES MOVE
AS ‘POLITICAL ACT’

A second bus of migrants arrived at a Los Angeles, California, church from Texas. (Getty Images)

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," Zach Seidle, the city’s deputy mayor of communications and
spokesperson for the mayor said. "As we have before, when we became aware of the bus
yesterday, we activated our plan."

The bus arrived nearly a week after the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to
pursue a lawsuit and criminal probe against Texas over its migrant busing program.

Council members requested the city attorney’s office investigate whether Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott has committed crimes through the program, and whether the lawsuit is justified.

LA CITY COUNCIL VOTES FOR LAWSUIT, CRIMINAL PROBE AGAINST TEXAS OVER
MIGRANT BUSING PROGRAM

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott looks on during a news conference on March 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty
Images)

Abbott’s program had delivered a total of 435 migrants to LA since buses started arriving
on June 14. In total, the program has sent over 30,000 migrants to Democrat-led cities
across the U.S., including New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

In a statement to Fox News Digital last Thursday, Abbott’s office highlighted LA’s status as
a sanctuary city as a reason to send the migrants there, adding that migrants on the buses
sign a multi-language consent waiver stating where their destination is.

"The LA City Council members are complete hypocrites," Abbott spokesman Andrew
Mahaleris said in the statement. "In June, they unanimously voted to become a sanctuary
city, welcoming migrants to the city. Texas began busing migrants to sanctuary cities like
Los Angeles last year to provide relief to our overrun and overwhelmed border
communities."

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Abbott has continued to orchestrate the trips because Texas’s border region is
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Anders Hagstrom of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.

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