Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday for sending migrants to the city by bus in California as Tropical Storm Hilary raged in the region, calling it “malicious.”. This was reported by the news portal NBC News.
“It is malevolent to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a bus with families and young children on board to a city that was under an unprecedented tropical storm warning at the time,” Bass said in a statement reported by NBC News.
Bass noted that while alerting Los Angeles residents to the storm, “the governor of texas sent families and young children right our way, on a journey through extreme weather conditions“.
“If anyone understands the danger of hurricanes and thunderstorms, it’s the governor of Texas, who has to deal with this threat on an annual basis. This is a despicable act that goes beyond politics.“he added.
Governor Bass’s administration said the migrants were transported by bus, which left Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday and arrived at Union Station in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. Her office said the mayor and her team learned of the bus while the Los Angeles emergency operations center was activated at a higher level to deal with the major storm..
Bass’s office said this was the ninth migrant bus sent to Los Angeles.
Andrew Mahaleris, Governor Abbott’s press secretary, assured that the migrants decided “voluntarily to go to Los Angeles” and that they signed a consent agreement available in multiple languages ”before boarding the bus” in which they assured that “they agreed with destiny”, according to NBC News.
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2023-08-23 00:10:00
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