A bus carrying migrant families arrived at Union Station in Los Angeles from Texas on Saturday morning, marking the

thirteenth 13th

Since June, Republican leaders have sent immigrants from the conservative state to the city as part of a campaign against the “sanctuary” policy.

A coalition of nonprofits and faith leaders called the LA Welcomes Collective is working with local officials to host and provide services to the asylum seekers.

“The city has continued to work with city departments, the county and a coalition of nonprofits, in addition to our faith partners, to implement a plan established earlier this year,” said Zach Seidl, spokesperson for Mayor Karen Bass. . “As before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan.”

The mayor’s office said the bus arrived from Texas at 8:55 a.m.

In a press release issued Friday,

Texas Governor Greg

said Abbott

Texas the state

has brought “more than 480 migrants to Los Angeles” since June 14 because of what he and other Republicans have said is the Biden administration’s failure to secure the border. The governor has not publicly commented on the bus arriving Saturday.

Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesperson for The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles and the collective of nonprofits, said 46 people arrived on Saturday, including 12 families and 15 children.

The migrants came from Brownsville, Texas, and come from Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Cabrera said.

He said the first thing the LA Welcomes Collective does is provide food. Caseworkers then visit each family one by one to assess their needs.

“We were even told that many on this particular bus today had not had anything to eat during the ride,” Cabrera said. “Some did say they had chips and water. So they basically had their first meal in 25 hours.”

The bus is the 13th to arrive in Los Angeles from Texas since June 14, raising concerns among local and state officials.

The Los Angeles City Council voted in August to open an investigation into charging the state of Texas and Abbott for sending a bus full of migrants to Los Angeles and to investigate whether those actions violated any criminal laws.

The campaign in Texas is a continuation of the immigration wars playing out nationally.

This week, The Times reported that the Biden administration is considering forcing some migrant families who enter the country without authorization to remain close to the border in Texas while awaiting asylum screening.

Texas Governor Greg

Abbott responded by criticizing the president.

A US judge also ordered Abbott to remove the floating material

buoy buoy

in the middle of the Rio Grande that were used to prevent migrants from crossing the border illegally in a case brought by the Biden administration against the state, news reports show.