Mayor Karen Bass "fearful that any day" migrants may be flown to L.A.

• "We live in a city that welcomes immigrants, and so I think we have been able to handle it, but I am fearful that any day planes could start coming."
• "This is just setting the stage for the presidential election next year," she added.

The big picture: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has sent nearly a dozen buses of migrants to Los Angeles as part of an ongoing effort to test Democratic cities' social safety nets and challenge President Biden's border policies.

• Abbott last month transported migrants to L.A. as the city was being hit by Tropical Storm Hilary, which brought historic rainfall to the city and surrounding areas, a move that Bass decried at the time as "evil."

• Abbott said previously that migrants were being sent to L.A. because California had declared itself a "sanctuary" for immigrants.

What she's saying: "We don't know anything about hurricanes, we don't know much about rain," Bass said during the Axios event.

• "And the idea that he would send the bus, knowing what we were potentially facing here, that's why I called it evil."

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