The 42 migrants bused from Texas traveled more than 1,500 miles and 23 hours without food or water, according to immigrants rights advocates.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday that his office is investigating what 42 migrants were told before boarding a bus from Texas to Los Angeles.California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office is investigating the legality of Texas busing 42 migrants to LAThe DOJ is looking for evidence of deception or fraud that could be the basis of civil or criminal chargesTexas Gov.
“As they arrived into the bus depot, the governor of Texas tweeted about it, seemingly knowing exactly when the bus was going to arrive,” Bonta said during an unrelated press event in Riverside, Calif.Bonta said the California Department of Justice is investigating whether there was any deception or fraud that could be the basis for civil or criminal illegal activity.
“The legality question is an open one,” he said. “We will go wherever the facts and the law take us.” Traveling from Honduras, Venezuela and Haiti, the migrants are asylum seekers fleeing conditions where they were unsafe or persecuted, Bonta said. “There’s a legal process for seeking asylum here in the United States,” he added. “These are recent arrivals. They included children, and they were part of a political stunt by the governor of Texas and perhaps others.”
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