A long line of buses deposited multiple dozens of migrants at the Washington, D.C., home of Vice President Kamala Harris this past Saturday.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, alongside a sizable group of Republicans that lead southern states, has arranged for the transport of multiple thousands of migrants to liberal cities marked as sanctuary cities such as Chicago, New York City, Martha’s Vineyard, and Washington, D.C., over the past few months to highlight the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
As temperatures drop down into the teens, buses sporting roughly 50 migrants apiece were slated to finish their trip late Christmas Eve and deposit the people in front of the U.S. Naval Observatory, explained a report to CNN. One reporter from a local affiliate of ABC, 7News, discovered what she stated was the third and final bus of the evening, noting that it came directly from Texas.
#HappeningNow the second bus of migrants has arrived here in D.C. near VP Kamala Harris’ home. They are boarding another bus taking them to a church. Was just told by someone helping bring them to the church that this bus came from Texas: pic.twitter.com/Sp4upqz1yB
— Christian Flores (@CFloresNews) December 25, 2022
Videos posted to Twitter by Christian Flores, a reporter, highlighted that he expressed were migrants gathering their belongings and getting onto another bus slated to go to a local church. They included both women and children.
The third and final bus of migrants of the night of migrants buses up to D.C. from Texas arriving, with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network taking them to a church: pic.twitter.com/Y65B8RnilZ
— Christian Flores (@CFloresNews) December 25, 2022
Noah Gray with CNN highlighted a comment from Amy Fischer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid claiming that these asylum-seekers were initially slated to go to New York but “shifted to DC because of the weather.”
Amy Fischer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network tells me the 3 busses of asylum seekers were sent by Texas @GovAbbott & originally headed for NY but “shifted to DC because of the weather,” busses picking up were from DC govt- the migrants were bussed to a DC church. https://t.co/j1y9PtSEy0
— Noah Gray (@NoahGrayCNN) December 25, 2022
He stated in his report that migrants were being moved locally to the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.
The migrants made it to D.C. as the Supreme Court decides the current fate of Title 42, a massively controversial public health order from the Trump administration that allows agents of the border patrol to send away migrants at an expedited rate, including those attempting to get asylum. A group of Republican-leaning states, which includes Texas, are now battling the Biden administration in the high court to keep the emergency powers alive, issuing warnings about chaos along the border.
A report from U.S. authorities has expressed that well over 2 million migrant encounters has taken place along the border for the fiscal year 2022, a notable spike from last year. When the figure has reported this past October, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said “failing regimes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua” were pushing a new tidal wave of migrants across the western hemisphere.
While highlighting the buses making their way to just outside of Harris’ home at the Naval Observatory in September, Abbot claimed that the vice president was the pick from Old Uncle Joe to head up the efforts from the admin to deal with the issued regarding migration and the crisis at the border.
“The Biden-Harris Administration continues ignoring and denying the historic crisis at our southern border, which has endangered and overwhelmed Texas communities for almost two years,” stated Abbott in a release at the time. “Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure.’ Texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C. until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border.”
