On Christmas Eve, Vice President Kamala Harris was met with a new bus of migrants from Texas at her home in Washington D.C. This bus was the third after the initial two were taken to local shelters in the face of the freezing temperatures.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the buses to the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), which is the official residence of the vice president of the United States. The freezing temperatures captured the eyes of everyone, many migrants unfit to take on the local weather.
WJLA local news reported: The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was there to take all three busloads of people to a church to help provide them with necessary resources and welcome them to our area.
Abbott has been fed up with the onus put on border states to provide for a failed border system. The Texas governor has been bussing migrants all over the country for months to both send a message and illustrate the lack of resources they can provide these people.
This week Abbott wrote again to the President saying “Your policies will leave many people in the bitter, dangerous cold as a polar vortex moves into Texas. Texas has borne a lopsided burden caused by your open border policies.”
“This terrible crisis for border communities in Texas is a catastrophe of your own making,” he wrote.
“The need to address this crisis is not the job of border states like Texas. Instead, the U.S. Constitution dictates that it is your job, Mr. President, to defend the borders of our country, regulate our nation’s immigration, and manage those who seek refuge here.”
This border crisis has been a central issue to both political parties in recent months as Republican Governor states like Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis are fed up, and Democrat leaders despise their methods of dealing with the problem.
Amy Fischer, a core organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network seemed to welcome the migrants with open arms saying, “This is a welcome effort that we’ve been doing since the first bus arrived, D.C. just continues to show up as a welcoming city that is always ready and willing to open their arms to welcome people, whether it’s Christmas Eve, whether it’s 9 degrees outside or 90 degrees outside.”
She continued with a jab at Abbott for these practices, “It really does show the cruelty behind Gov. Abbott and his insistence on continuing to bus people here without care about people arriving late at night on Christmas Eve when the weather is so cold. People are getting off the buses, they don’t have coats, they don’t have clothes for this kind of weather, and they’re freezing,” Fischer said.
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