Bus carrying 28 migrants from Texas arrives in Philadelphia, including girl with dehydration and fever

Philadelphia — A bus carrying 28 migrants from Texas arrived in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including a 10-year-old girl suffering from dehydration and a high fever who was whisked to a hospital for treatment. Advocates who welcomed them as they arrived before dawn said the families and individuals came from Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. The city and several nonprofit groups were ready to provide food, temporary housing and other services.   "In general, people feel relieved. We want them to know that they have a home here," said Philadelphia City Council member Helen Gym, who accompanied several of the migrants onto a second bus taking them to a site where their needs could be assessed.   "There's a 10-year-old who's completely dehydrated. It's one of the more inhumane aspects that they would put a child who was dehydrated with a fever now, a very high fever (on the bus)," Gym said. "It's a terrible situation."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that Philadelphia would be the next destination for migrants the state is transporting from the U.S.-Mexico border by the thousands to Democratic-led locales, putting a new bus on the road a week after the Republican easily won reelection.

CBS News immigration reporter Camlio Montoya-Galvez said the move was the latest escalation of Abbott's efforts to repudiate the Biden administration and its Democratic allies for the federal government's handling of an unprecedented wave of migration along the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two years.