Three busloads of immigrants arrived in the nation’s capital on Saturday evening from Texas, including one that unloaded passengers outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence late Saturday night, according to multiple reports.
The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was on hand to transport immigrants to a local church and provide them with proper resources after some were seen without adequate winter attire as the temperatures dropped into the low teens, according to 7News.
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A video posted to Twitter by 7News Washington, D.C., reporter Christian Flores shows a group of people entering a bus. “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,” the tweet said.
Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing immigrants seeking asylum to Democratic cities since April, much to the party’s chagrin. The Texas Republican has sent more than 8,500 to Washington, D.C., more than 4,000 to New York City, over 1,300 to Chicago, and more than 260 to Philadelphia, according to data from his office.
Abbott’s actions are intended to highlight the crisis at the border, responding to the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42, a pandemic-era emergency health order that allowed immigration authorities at the border to deny entry to immigrants. This week, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the expiration of the Trump-era policy.
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
The Department of Homeland Security estimates it could see between 9,000 and 15,000 immigrants a day once the policy ends. The agency warned immigrants that the administration is continuing to enforce Title 42 after the Supreme Court’s decision. Additionally, DHS alerted those considering entering the country illegally of the dangerously low temperatures at the border as Texas deals with a winter storm.
Abbott sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday, demanding the administration address the situation at the border and send federal resources as a winter storm approached Texas.
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“You and your administration must stop the lie that the border is secure and, instead, immediately deploy federal assets to address the dire problems you have caused,” Abbott wrote. “You must execute the duties that the U.S. Constitution mandates you perform and secure the southern border before more innocent lives are lost.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House and Abbott’s office for comment but did not receive a response.
