SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — 16 Venezuelan and Colombian migrants who entered the rustic via Texas have been flown to California via chartered aircraft and dropped off outdoor a church in Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom and migrant rights advocates stated Saturday.
The younger women and men have been dropped off Friday outdoor the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento with just a backpack’s price of property every, stated Eddie Carmona, marketing campaign director at PICO California, a faith-based group organizing crew that has been helping the migrants.
The migrants had already been processed via U.S. immigration officers and given court docket dates for his or her asylum instances when “folks representing a personal contractor” approached them outdoor a migrant heart in El Paso, Texas, Carmona stated. They introduced to assist the migrants get jobs and get them to their ultimate vacation spot, he stated.
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“They have been lied to and deliberately deceived,” Carmona stated, including that the migrants had no concept the place they have been after being dropped off in Sacramento.
Newsom stated he and Legal professional Basic Rob Bonta met with the crowd of migrants on Saturday and realized they have been transported from Texas to New Mexico after which flown via personal chartered jet to Sacramento.
“We’re operating intently with the Mayor’s workplace, together with native and nonprofit companions to make sure the individuals who have arrived are handled with appreciate and dignity, and get to their meant vacation spot as they pursue their immigration instances,” Newsom stated in a commentary.
Newsom stated he’s additionally operating with the California Division of Justice to determine who paid for the crowd’s commute and “whether or not the folks orchestrating this commute misled somebody with false guarantees or have violated any legal rules, together with kidnapping.”
Within the closing yr, Republican governors in Texas and Florida were busing and flying migrants to Democratic strongholds with out advance caution as a part of a marketing campaign to center of attention consideration on what they are saying are the Biden management’s failed border insurance policies.