About 130 immigrants, including families with children, were loaded onto buses by Texas authorities and dropped off near the home of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington over the Christmas weekend.
The information comes from Tatiana Laborde, executive director of SAMU First Response, an aid organization working in the city of Washington.
She says aid groups were alerted to the transport of migrants and waited to distribute blankets and take them to a church in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. The United States has been facing a freezing cold snap for weeks.
The third and final bus carrying migrants of the Texas to DC Migrant Bus Night arrives, with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network taking them to a church: pic.twitter.com/Y65B8RnilZ
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Greg Abbott’s Texas government declined to comment on the case. He is a critic of Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
Republican governors have been transporting immigrants to Democratrun cities in the northern United States🇧🇷 Nine buses full of migrants were abandoned in Washington last week.
“Recently we are seeing an increase in people from Ecuador and Colombia,” said Tatiana Laborde. Previously, many Venezuelans had traveled by bus, she added.
Most newcomers try to make it to New York or New Jersey, where they have family or community support.
*With information from Portal