A bus carrying about 38 immigrants, sent from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott, arrived at 30th Street Station this morning. Immigration advocates said it was a cruel trick played on innocent people who are legally in the U.S.
A bus carrying 31 immigrants sent from Texas pulled up outside 30th Street Station in the cool fog of Wednesday morning. The bus was sent by Gov. Greg Abbott in what he said was an effort to bring the challenges of the border to northern cities.
By 6:25 a.m., the bus had departed 30th Street, leaving 19 people to board a SEPTA bus to take them to a welcome center set up by the city in North Philadelphia. One of the children was being treated at a local hospital after arriving with a high fever. Dobin Garmendia, 23, came to the United States from Nicaragua. He said people who he believed were Texas officials offered to bring him and others to Philadelphia for free if they had no money for the trip. He described the bus trip as generally smooth.Blanca Pacheco, co-director of New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, decried the uncertainty that Abbott inflicted on families by busing them to an unfamiliar city.
Texas has been sending migrants to northern cities in what it says is an effort to relieve pressure at the border, and others call a political stunt that harms and confuses innocent people. That planning intensified in recent days. Officials noted that a major city such as Philadelphia can easily welcome a single bus of arrivals.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, estimated that Texas has spent more than $2,166 per migrant to bus people to Washington, New York and Chicago. “At that price,” he tweeted, “Texas could have bought each person multiple first-class plane tickets.”
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