The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to investigate whether the city can sue the state of Texas and the governor of Texas. Greg Abbott for sending a busload of migrants to Los Angeles on June 14, and investigating whether Abbott’s actions violated criminal laws.

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These motions are about investigating whether Gov. Greg Abbott committed kidnapping, trafficking or other crimes when he sent vulnerable families on a 23-hour bus ride with little or no food or water,” Councilman Hugo Soto-Martnez said shortly before the 13-0 vote.

The June 14 bus was the first bus sent to Los Angeles

the state of

Texas. Ten more buses have arrived in the two months since, with the most recent bus arriving at Union Station during the Wednesday City Council meeting.

The proposal leads City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto’s office to investigate and initiate proceedings regarding potential civil action that could be taken against Texas, Abbott or “any other entity related to the June 14, 2023 schedule and actions.” Also, Feldstein Soto’s office is being asked to investigate and report whether “trafficking, kidnapping or any other crime was committed” on or before the day the first bus was sent.

Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did Feldstein Soto’s.

The council also unanimously passed a separate resolution declaring LA County Dist. atty George Gascn, California Atty. General Rob Bonta and American Atty. General Merrick Garland to similarly investigate and report whether crimes have been committed.

Both the proposal and the resolution were originally tabled on June 16 by

Soto-Martnez and colleague

Councilors Euniss Hernandez

Soto-Martnez

, Monica Rodriguez and Nithya Raman. The text of both documents only directly addresses the first bus, although councilors also spoke of the other buses in their comments.

At the council meeting, Soto-Martnez also berated Abbott for sending a busload of migrants into the city earlier this month as Los Angeles faced an unprecedented tropical storm warning and officials urged residents not to travel.

Mayor Karen Bass also slammed Abbott after that bus arrived, calling the move evil.

Councilors Kevin de Len, Heather Hutt and Imelda Padilla also expressed support for the proposals.

Padilla, the newest member of the council,

focused

her comments

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to the service

organizations that have providers that have done that

helped welcome the arriving migrants, said she knew the arrival of large numbers of people at once could create tension and asked them to get in touch if they needed help.

The bus that arrived Wednesday morning was carrying “35 asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Russia and Venezuela,” including 21 adults and 14 children. according to the non-profit organization Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, known as CHIRLA.

More than 400 people have arrived on eleven buses since mid-June, Bass spokesman Zach Seidl said Wednesday.

“The city has continued to work with city departments, the county and a coalition of nonprofits, in addition to our partners of faith, to implement a plan that was laid out earlier this year. As we have done before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan,” Seidl said in a statement.