Busloads of migrants dropped off at vice president’s DC home on Christmas Eve

A number of busloads of migrants had been dropped off at Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C. on Saturday — Christmas Eve — leaving migrants on the streets in below-freezing temperatures, based on a number of experiences.

Three busloads of migrants had been pushed to D.C., ABC 7 reported, and arrived exterior the Naval Observatory, which is the vice chairman’s residence. The migrants had been later taken to a church by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Assist Community, a neighborhood help group.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was answerable for Saturday’s incident, based on ABC 7 and Fox Information, marking the newest episode in a months-long effort by the governor to ship migrants to democratic-run cities as a method to encourage the Biden administration to take steps to manage immigration within the U.S.

In September, Abbott despatched two buses stuffed with migrants to Harris’s resilience in D.C., sparking criticism amongst Democrats. Different Republican governors, together with Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Arizona’s Doug Ducey, have transported migrants to democratic-run cities throughout the nation in latest months.

“Tonight, on Christmas Eve, Gov Abbott’s buses dropped off migrants on the VP’s home within the freezing chilly,” the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Assist Community wrote on Twitter early Sunday. “This isn’t new, it has been occurring for 8 months.”

Abbott penned a letter to President Biden final Tuesday demanding that the administration ship federal property to handle the state of affairs on the border, particularly as temperatures drop and a winter storm approached Texas.

“You and your administration should cease the lie that the border is safe and, as a substitute, instantly deploy federal property to handle the dire issues you have got induced,” Abbott wrote. “You should execute the duties that the U.S. Structure mandates you carry out and safe the southern border earlier than extra harmless lives are misplaced.”

In an announcement Saturday, the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) stated it “continues to completely implement our immigration and public well being legal guidelines on the border.”

“People and households making an attempt to enter with out authorization are being expelled, as required by courtroom order beneath the Title 42 public well being authority, or positioned into elimination proceedings. As temperatures stay dangerously low all alongside the border, nobody ought to put their lives within the fingers of smugglers, or danger life and limb making an attempt to cross solely to be returned,” DHS added.

The company stated 23,000 brokers and officers are “working to safe the Southwest border and the USA Authorities continues to work carefully with our companions in Mexico to bolster coordinated enforcement operations to focus on human smuggling organizations and produce them to justice.”

The Supreme Courtroom final Monday briefly stopped the expiration of Title 42, the Trump-era coverage that enables border officers to show away asylum seekers due to public well being considerations. If it does finally expire, Abbott stated the variety of people getting into Texas illegally “will solely improve.”

The Hill reached out to the White Home and Abbott for remark.