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Questions abound after more migrants flown to California

AP / Jun 06, 2023, 13.10 PM IST

Another plane carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento on Monday, marking the second flight in recent days that California officials allege was coordinated by Florida. The flight carrying roughly 20 migrants that arrived Monday follows the arrival Friday of 16 migrants from Colombia and Venezuela, who were taken from Texas to New Mexico before they were put on a chartered plane to California's capital. It's not clear what countries the latest group of arrivals are from, but their travel appears to have been arranged by the same company, according to a spokesperson for California Attorney General Rob Bonta. An investigating is underway to determine whether any crimes were committed. They carried documents that said they were transported through a program run by Florida’s Division of Emergency Management and carried out by contractor Vertol Systems Co., according to the attorney general's spokesperson. The first group of migrants was dropped off at the Roman Catholic Church diocese’s headquarters in Sacramento. "We had no idea that they were coming," said Bishop Jaime Soto. But my staff quickly found some of our our community folks who work with the immigrant community." The migrants entered the U.S. through Texas. A campaign director at PICO California, a faith-based group that helps migrants, said U.S. immigration officials had already processed the young women and men and given them court dates for their asylum cases when “individuals representing a private contractor” approached them outside a migrant center in El Paso, Texas, and offered to help them get jobs and get them to their final destinations. “They were lied to and intentionally deceived,” he said, adding that the migrants had no idea where they were after being dropped off in Sacramento. He said they have court dates in cities throughout the country, not only in Texas, and that none of them meant to end up in California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that he also met with the newly arrived migrants and that officials were working to ensure that they are “treated with respect and dignity” through this process.

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