Busloads of migrants were left near Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington home over Christmas weekend amid freezing temperatures after the travelers crossed the southwestern Texas border, aid groups said Sunday.
About 110 to 130 asylum-seeking immigrants in the United States, many of them families with children, have been loaded onto buses by Texas authorities, said Tatiana Laborde, chief executive officer of SAMU First Response, a relief agency working with the city. of Washington. .
He said by phone that aid groups had been briefed on the migrants’ journey and were awaiting their arrival late Saturday evening to distribute blankets and then transport them to a church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s aides were unavailable to comment on whether the state coordinated the transportation.
The Republican governor, an outspoken critic of President Joe Biden’s administration’s immigration policies, and a few other Republican governors have been transporting immigrants to Democratic-controlled cities in the northern United States.
Texas bused thousands of migrants to Washington, New York and Chicago in what some critics called a ploy amid a national debate over high levels of immigrant arrivals along its southern border.
Laborde said nine busloads of immigrants were left behind in Washington last week.
“Lately, what we’ve seen is an increase in people from Ecuador and Colombia,” Laborde said. Previously, many Venezuelans arrived by bus, he added.
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