Daily News | City receives 15th bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Philadelphia
and his administration for “cruel and racist policies using immigrant families — including children — as pawns to shamelessly push their warped political agenda.”
City officials said the bus on Thursday contained people from Colombia, Cuba, Panama, Peru, Nicaragua, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela. The immigrants were greeted by various city workers and representative from nonprofits offering services such as emergency health screenings, language translation, and food and water, officials said.
The immigrants who are not transported to the welcoming center are picked up by family and friends or continue their travel to surrounding states, a city spokesperson said.embraced its role as a sanctuary city . At one point in 2019, more undocumented families had taken refuge in sanctuary churches in Philadelphia than in any city in the country.
The Kenney administration won a lawsuit over former President Donald Trump’s effort to make local police enforce federal immigration laws, kicked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of a database it believed the agency was using to find undocumented people, and barred city employees from asking residents about their immigration status.
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