LOS ANGELES — Another bus from Texas, containing 49 migrants, arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 4, the seventh such busload since June 14.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a leading member of the L.A. Welcomes Collective, confirmed the bus arrived at approximately 12:15 p.m. from Brownsville, Texas. A total of 283 asylum-seekers have arrived to the city of Los Angeles to date.
“Los Angeles continues to open its heart and work collectively to give asylum seekers the refuge they deserve,” Angelica Salas, CHIRLA executive director said in a statement. “Our work is to help them find protection and a better life in the U.S., their new home.”
Salas said that the migrants will “leave behind the suffering and any use of their plight for political agendas.”
Zach Seidl, spokesman for Mayor Karen Bass, said in a statement that the city continues to work with city partners to execute a plan set in place earlier this year to aid migrants.
“As we have before, when we became of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan,” Seidl said.
The bus included 32 adults and 17 children, ranging in ages from 4 months old to 16 years of age. Of the total 49 bus riders, 25 were female and 24 were male.
The migrants’ countries of origin included Brazil, Cameroon, China, Columbia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and Venezuela, according to CHIRLA.
The bus included 32 adults and 17 children, ranging in ages from 4 months old to 16 years of age. Of the total 49 bus riders, 25 were female and 24 were male.
The migrants’ countries of origin included Brazil, Cameroon, China, Columbia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico and Venezuela, according to CHIRLA.
Upon arrival at Union Station, migrants were immediately transported to the receiving center at nearby St. Anthony’s Croatian Church, where they met volunteers and staff who provided urgent humanitarian support…
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