Bonta described the trials and tribulations the migrants faced on their journey to Texas, saying that the group mostly from Venuezela had traveled for about three months to make it to the border.
SAN DIEGO — ABC 10News interviewed California Attorney General Rob Bonta about how the state will respond after a group of migrants, who entered the country through Texas, were dropped off in front of a Sacramento church following a flight on a private, chartered jet.
Question 2: Where are the majority of the migrants from? When you spoke with them, what kind of things did they tell you? Did you gain insight about their circumstance? And they all said, you know, we want to work. We're not asking for a handout. We're not asking to be given anything we don't deserve. We want to work and get a job. And we also want to make sure we attend our immigration hearings. They all had hearings that were given to them somewhere as early as later this month, some later this year. And many of them were in locations nowhere near Sacramento, like New York or Chicago.
That's how they should have been treated the whole time. That's what it means to be American — an America built on immigrants. Their story is very unique. But at its core, it's the story of people coming from a country where they're facing suffering or violence and don't have a future and coming to America in pursuit of opportunity and a better life. That story has been told thousands of times and thousands of ways across decades in the United States of America.
There's not one migrant here that has ever set foot in the state of Florida. The state of Florida has used state of Florida public tax dollars to pay for Vertol Systems to be in Texas, another state, a different state, to engage with migrants and to mislead them with the hope and dream of possibly finding jobs, to lure them onto a plane and to take them to another state. Again, another state that's not Florida. So it's...
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