{"id":2020036,"date":"2023-09-02T04:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-city-council-requests-criminal-probe-of-texas-governor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-02T04:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T08:06:02","slug":"los-angeles-city-council-requests-criminal-probe-of-texas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-city-council-requests-criminal-probe-of-texas-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Council seeks criminal investigation of Texas Governor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flos-angeles-city-council-requests-criminal-probe-of-texas-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2020036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Los Angeles\u200d City\u200b Council Investigates Texas Governor&#8217;s Actions<\/h2>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Amidst\u200b the arrival of yet another bus of migrants from Texas, the City Council of\u2063 Los Angeles has taken a \u200cbold\u200d step. On August 30, they approved a motion requesting the City Attorney&#8217;s Office to investigate whether Texas \u200bGovernor \u200bGreg Abbott committed any\u2064 crimes. This investigation stems from Governor\u2062 Abbott&#8217;s decision to send\u200d 42 migrants on a grueling 23-hour bus ride to downtown \u200dLos Angeles in \u2064June.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, introduced by council members Eunisses \u200dHernandez, Nithya Raman, Monica Rodriguez, and Hugo Soto-Mart\u00ednez on\u200b June 16, calls \u2063for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/monday-november-1st-2021\/\" title=\"Monday | November 1st, 2021\">potential legal action<\/a> against the \u200dstate of\u2062 Texas, Governor\u2064 Abbott, and any \u200cother \u2064entities involved\u2062 in the planning and execution of this migrant transportation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-minneapolis-police-officers-left-after-getting-slammed-now-city-spending-millions-for-new-recruits\/\" title=\"Hundreds Of Minneapolis Police Officers Left After Getting Slammed. Now City Spending Millions For New Recruits.\">council voted unanimously<\/a>, 13\u20130, in \u200dfavor of the motion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/11th-bus-of-illegal-migrants-arrived-in-los-angeles-from-texas-5483691\">11th Bus of Illegal Migrants Arrived\u200b in \u2064Los Angeles From Texas<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/30\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/sixth-bus-of-migrants-from-texas-arrive-in-la-from-texas-5427656\">6th Bus\u2063 of Illegal\u200c Immigrants From Texas Arrives\u200c in LA<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">7\/27\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably,\u200d council members Hernandez \u2062and\u2062 Curren Price \u2062were absent during the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Since June 14, \u2064Texas has sent a total of 11 buses carrying 435 migrants to Los Angeles.\u2064 The\u2062 most \u200crecent\u200d bus arrived on\u2062 Wednesday, bringing 35 asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, Russia, and Venezuela, according to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Both Governor Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has \u2062sent similar shipments of\u2062 migrants to New York, have defended their decisions. They \u2063argue that their states are overwhelmed by the influx of immigrants entering the country illegally. Governor Abbott specifically referenced the council&#8217;s recent declaration of Los Angeles as a\u200d &#8220;Sanctuary City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior\u200b to the council&#8217;s vote,\u2064 Councilman Hugo Soto-Mart\u00ednez criticized the actions of Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis, stating, &#8220;The competition between these Republican governors about who could be more\u200b racist, I think, is just an utter failure\u200d and shows clearly that they do not\u200c have any intention to govern effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soto-Mart\u00ednez further highlighted Governor Abbott&#8217;s decision to send a bus of migrants, including children, to Los Angeles during the city&#8217;s \u200dpreparations for Tropical Storm Hilary. He emphasized\u2062 the \u2064need \u2063for\u2064 a thorough investigation into the governor&#8217;s actions, stating, &#8220;The callous disregard for the lives of\u2062 these families deserves full accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As\u2063 of now, Governor Abbott&#8217;s office has not \u2063responded to requests for comment regarding the council&#8217;s \u200bactions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the motion, the\u200b council also passed a\u2063 resolution, again with a \u2064unanimous 13\u20130 \u2062vote. This \u2063resolution calls upon Los Angeles County \u2062District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n,\u2064 State Attorney General Rob Bonta, \u2062and U.S.\u2064 Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate and report on the same issue. It\u200b also urges the county, state, and federal governments to provide housing, placement, and necessary resources to ensure a\u2063 dignified welcome for the\u200c migrants in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the criticism, Governor\u2062 Abbott defended his \u2064actions, stating, &#8220;Texas&#8217; small border towns remain overwhelmed and overrun by the thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-abbott-signs-executive-order-banning-ground-travel-of-migrants-with-risk-of-spreading-covid-19\/\" title=\"Gov. Abbott signs executive order banning ground travel of migrants with risk of spreading COVID-19\">people illegally crossing<\/a> into Texas \u200dfrom \u200dMexico \u2062because of President Biden&#8217;s refusal to secure\u200c the border. Los Angeles is a major city that migrants seek\u200b to\u2062 go\u200c to,\u200d particularly \u2062now\u200b that its city \u2062leaders approved \u200dits \u200dself-declared \u2063sanctuary \u2062city status. Our \u2064border\u2063 communities are on the\u200c front lines \u2063of President Biden&#8217;s\u200b border crisis, and Texas will continue providing this much-needed relief until \u2062he steps\u2063 up to do \u200dhis \u200bjob and secure the border.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On June 9, the \u2062City Council had previously sought to establish Los Angeles as\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">sanctuary city<\/a>, further fueling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-city-council-requests-criminal-probe-of-texas-governor\/\" title=\"LA City Council seeks criminal investigation of Texas Governor.\">ongoing debate \u200dsurrounding immigration policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles City Council approved a motion on Aug. 30, requesting an investigation by the City Attorney&#8217;s Office into potential crimes committed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. This comes as another bus of migrants from Texas arrived in Los Angeles, following the controversial 23-hour journey of 42 migrants to downtown LA in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":2020037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}