Four days ago, 16 South American asylum seekers were flown from Texas to California on a private plane. Most people didn’t know where they were when they landed. But the people who arranged transportation put them on a bus and dropped them off outside the Catholic Church in Sacramento.
They rang the church bell and told the group of immigrants they were coming back.
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