Immigrant rights activists said sending the busload, which included 16 families with over a dozen children, less than 24 hours after Hilary hit was “reprehensible.”
The first tropical storm to hit Los Angeles in 84 years dumped record rainfall and turned streets into muddy, debris-swollen rivers.Aboard the bus were 16 families, including 14 children and an infant, according to the Welcomes Collective. Twenty of the migrants came from Venezuela, with the others hailing from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and Ecuador.
“Migrants were immediately taken to a receiving site in Chinatown where they were offered urgent humanitarian support services, including food, clothing, hygiene kits, health checkups, and immigration-specific legal orientations,” the collective said.with torrential rain, toppling trees, damaging roads and downing power lines in parts of Los Angeles and causing major flooding and marooning communities in other areas of Southern California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Southern California before the storm made landfall.“It is an irresponsible political game by Texas officials to send vulnerable migrants and families into an emergency zone,” Martha Arevalo, executive director of the Central American Resource Center.
Since mid June, 360 people have arrived in Los Angeles by buses sent from Texas with the support of Gov. Greg Abbott.
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