Another migrant bus sent from Texas arrived in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, the second such drop-off in the city in a few weeks.

The bus carried 41 illegal immigrants, including eleven children, originally coming from around eight countries in Central and South America including Cuba, Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. They arrived at St. Anthony’s Croatian Church, which alongside other nonprofits helped accommodate and tend to the group, according to Fox 11.

A spokesperson for the city of Los Angeles told the Hill that it did not anticipate or prepare for a new influx of illegal immigrants.

On June 14, a first bus of migrants originating in Texas arrived in Los Angeles. Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the first bus on Twitter.

“Small Texas border towns remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border,” he wrote. “LA is a city migrants seek to go to, particularly now [that] its leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary status.”

The move prompted outcry from progressives who like others in the past called it an inhumane political scheme.

“Los Angeles is not a city motivated by hate or fear and we absolutely will not be swayed or moved by petty politicians playing with human lives,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said.

Abbott launched the migrant relocation program to bring awareness to the border crisis, which was and still is overwhelming border towns in Texas. After a short pause in the relocation program, Abbott resumed the drop-offs after Title 42 expired in May following a prolonged litigation process. The Trump-era Covid-19 policy significantly curbed illegal immigration by allowing border personnel to expel illegal immigrants as a means to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

Abbott and Florida governor Ron DeSantis have both shipped illegal immigrants to various progressive so-called sanctuary cities partially as a protest of the Biden administration’s extremely lax border enforcement policies, which they argue have fueled the ongoing crisis. On Christmas Eve in 2022, Abbott sent three buses of illegal immigrants carrying over 100 people to the vice president’s residence. In December, Abbott’s office said Texas had transported over 15,000 people since last April to Washington, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, Politico noted.

On Mother’s Day in May, Texas delivered another busload of illegal immigrants to the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C. The drop-off at the Naval Observatory came from Del Rio in South Texas, a border town on the Rio Grande, ABC 7 reported.