Texas governor Greg Abbott sends ‘1st bus’ of migrants to Los Angeles

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/the-guardian-view-on-the-nhs-chronic-problems-get-critical

 

Spokespeople for Abbott, whose tweet said it was “the 1st bus” headed to LA, did not respond to inquiries on Wednesday night. The group arrived at LA’s Union Station, a major transit hub, CBS Los Angeles reported, adding that a human rights organization took them to a nearby church. It wasn’t immediately clear where the migrants came from.

Bass said that after she took office last year, she directed city agencies to begin planning for a possible scenario in which LA “was on the receiving end of a despicable stunt that Republican Governors have grown so fond of”.

“This did not catch us off guard, nor will it intimidate us. Now, it’s time to execute our plan. Our emergency management, police, fire and other departments were able to find out about the incoming arrival while the bus was on its way and were already mobilized along with nonprofit partners before the bus arrived,” she said.

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12 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Our emergency management, police, fire and other departments were able to find out about the incoming arrival while the bus was on its way and were already mobilized

To provide sanctuary, no doubt.

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8 hours ago, Boiler said:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/the-guardian-view-on-the-nhs-chronic-problems-get-critical

 

Spokespeople for Abbott, whose tweet said it was “the 1st bus” headed to LA, did not respond to inquiries on Wednesday night. The group arrived at LA’s Union Station, a major transit hub, CBS Los Angeles reported, adding that a human rights organization took them to a nearby church. It wasn’t immediately clear where the migrants came from.

Bass said that after she took office last year, she directed city agencies to begin planning for a possible scenario in which LA “was on the receiving end of a despicable stunt that Republican Governors have grown so fond of”.

“This did not catch us off guard, nor will it intimidate us. Now, it’s time to execute our plan. Our emergency management, police, fire and other departments were able to find out about the incoming arrival while the bus was on its way and were already mobilized along with nonprofit partners before the bus arrived,” she said.

When will Bass start complaining to the Feds for more money?

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9 hours ago, Boiler said:

“was on the receiving end of a despicable stunt that Republican Governors have grown so fond of”.

LOL....Funny stuff..... No one forced Cali to declare itself as a sanctuary.   

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3 hours ago, Crazy Cat said:

LOL....Funny stuff..... No one forced Cali to declare itself as a sanctuary.   

Notice how these Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities never call our Biden, or the mayor of El Paso for doing the same thing.

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8 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Notice how these Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities never call our Biden, or the mayor of El Paso for doing the same thing.

Yeah -- when was the last time we heard about those late-night charter flights that carried illegals everywhere?

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Greg Abbott decision to bus migrants to LA condemned as ‘despicable stunt’
Los Angeles mayor says Texas governor ‘using human beings as pawns’ amid reports migrants were not given food or drink on bus

Governor Greg Abbott of Texas’s decision to bus migrants to Los Angeles this week has been decried as a “despicable stunt”, as advocates in California reported that the group was not offered food during the 23-hour trip.

On Wednesday, 42 migrants, including 15 youth and three babies, arrived at Union Station in downtown LA, said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, the communications director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights-Los Angeles (Chirla), who met the group when they arrived. The travelers he spoke to came from Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti, and one came from China, he said, adding some told him they had been on the bus for nearly a day without any food or drink.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, where 16 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were brought  last Friday from Texas.
Anger and anxiety as DeSantis’s asylum-seeker flights return to US skies

Abbott tweeted that it was the “1st bus of migrants” arriving in LA, claiming Texas border towns “remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border”.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/greg-abbott-texas-la-karen-bass-immigrant-bus

 

I do not think I have seen them this annoyed since, probably yesterday.

 

So 23 hour bus journey without food and drink, must admit I did not know there was a bus that could do that without stopping for gas, perhaps it had a trailer? Or it could refuel in motion?

 

And no stops for bathroom breaks either. 

 

More importantly that is well beyond the driver hour limit, the bus driver needs to be reported or commended.

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10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I do not think I have seen them this annoyed [...]

They're perfectly happy until they're called upon to provide Sanctuary.

11 minutes ago, Boiler said:

some told him they had been on the bus for nearly a day without any food or drink.

Such suffering in comparison with braving the Darien Gap and the money-hungry cartels...