Two groups of Venezuelan migrants flown separately to Sacramento, California, last week were sent by a Texas agency directing the travelers to a nonexistent immigration check-in location, an advocacy group told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.
While the eight men, who crossed the border in Laredo, Texas, did not know why they were traveling to California, the move was not part of efforts by Republican governors in Texas and Florida to ship migrants to liberal cities and states, according to Autumn Gonzalez, a volunteer with NorCal Resist.
Instead, a Texas shelter working with the newly arrived migrants appears to have given them airfare to Sacramento because their immigration paperwork indicated a check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in that city, Gonzalez said.
