The group will be taken to a welcoming facility on E. Luzerne Street in North Philadelphia.
The buses that arrived Friday were the third and fourth to roll into Philadelphia from Texas in the last two weeks.Two additional buses of people from Texas seeking asylum in the U.S. arrived in Philadelphia on Friday morning at 30th Street Station.
It was not immediately clear how many people were on the buses, but there appeared to be about five dozen. The group will be taken to a welcoming facility on E. Luzerne Street in North Philadelphia, officials said. Aborlada said he and his family went through the forest and it was very tough. They saw a lot of people dying and saw others who had to stop along the way.
Abbott, a Republican, previously announced Philadelphia would be added to the list of destinations for migrants that Texas has been transporting by the thousands from the U.S.-Mexico border to Democrat-led cities. The news came a week after Abbott easily won reelection.
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