The City Council moved forward in unanimously approving a motion asking the City Attorney's Office to investigate whether the Texas governor committed any crimes when he sent 42 migrants on a 23-hour bus ride to downtown L.A. in June.
The motion requests the city attorney to begin proceedings on any potential civil legal action that could be taken against the state of Texas, Abbott, or any other entity involved in the planning and action of busing migrants to Union Station, where they arrived on June 14.
Wednesday's bus had 35 asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Russia and Venezuela, according to the Coalition forAbbott and Florida Gov.
"Now how heartless do you have to be to send toddlers and small children knowing that everything that the city was preparing for an unprecedented state of emergency," Soto-Martinez said.
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