Colorado Governor Jared Polis missed the right tone with his rendition of the holiday hit “Feliz Navidad” as his state is flooded with immigrants.
Polis delivered the badass holiday message on Christmas Eve, complete with questionable dance moves while jumping up and down.
Without musical accompaniment, he couldn't hide how out of tune his singing was when he butchered the José Feliciano catchy tune in 1970.
Luckily, the entire performance was only 14 seconds long and not the entire three-minute Puerto Rican Christmas song that is a staple of Christmas mixtapes.
The video comes as Democratic-run Colorado continues to see an influx of migrants, with more than a dozen busloads arriving in Denver from the southern border in recent days.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis didn't hit the right note with his interpretation of Feliz Navidad
Even Coloradans who are fluent in Spanish found Polis' tone-deaf video painful to listen to and accused him of pandering to the Latino community.
Polis's timing was unfortunate as 16 more buses carrying immigrants from Texas arrived hours earlier after crossing the U.S. border. There were 341 people in the last convoy, nine buses arrived in Denver on Thursday evening and another seven on Friday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has spent the past year packing as many migrants as possible onto buses and sending them to “sanctuary cities” like New York and Chicago.
On a typical day, up to 10,000 asylum seekers cross the southern border, mostly in Texas and Arizona, and many of them are sent across the country.
Denver is housing 3,822 migrants (up from 3,135 in mid-October) in shelters and in tents on the streets. 100 buses are expected by the end of December.
Denver is housing 3,822 migrants (up from 3,135 in mid-October) in shelters and in tents on the streets. 100 buses are expected by the end of December
According to the city, 33,325 people have arrived since the crisis began last year and supplying Denver has cost $35 million.
Denver received $3.5 million from the state of Colorado, $9 million in federal funding and $1.6 million from the Department of Homeland Security.
However, the city is still overwhelmed and its mayor, Mike Johnston, was one of five who traveled to Washington DC to demand more federal funding for the refugee crisis.
Mayor Johnson joined the mayors of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston last month in calling for an additional $5 billion.
“Our cities need additional resources well beyond the proposed amount to adequately care for the asylum seekers coming into our communities,” they wrote.
“The dependence on municipal budgets is unsustainable and has forced us to cut essential city services.”
Jon Ewing, spokesman for the Denver Department of Human Services, said locals who speak English and Spanish should work at the shelters.
“In fact, we were able to hire more than 200 people.” “They are strong and we are very grateful,” he said.
Denver received $3.5 million from the state of Colorado, $9 million in federal funding and $1.6 million from the Department of Homeland Security
“Despite the holidays and the sheer volume of people coming every day, staffing remains an issue. “What we need is for the community's support to continue into the new year because it's not going away.”
Mayor Johnston remained largely pro-immigrant in his public statements, saying the main problem was that the migrants could not work legally because he had applied for funds and work permits from the federal government.
However, behind closed doors, the city government signaled that the city was at capacity and could not accommodate any more newcomers.
In October, the local government asked officials in border towns to hand out fliers urging asylum seekers to stay away from Colorado's capital after 21,000 new migrants arrived this year.
Matthew Mueller, executive director of the Office of Emergency Management, urged officials in Brownsville, El Paso, Houston and Dallas to tell migrants that Denver “can no longer provide the same level of housing to new arrivals.”
The fliers contain messages such as: “Denver's resources are depleted,” “the city cannot provide long-term housing,” and “housing in Denver is very expensive and there are not many affordable housing options.”
There were 341 people in the last convoy, nine buses arrived in Denver on Thursday evening and another seven on Friday
New York Mayor Eric Adams accused Polis in January of launching an “unfair” plan to send an influx of migrants to the Big Apple.
At least 6,739 migrants were bused to other cities such as Chicago and New York, with the city saying it was only sending them to their preferred final destinations.
The city also requested assistance from the Colorado National Guard, but since no state of emergency was declared, state officials sent civilian personnel instead.
Denver isn't the only part of Colorado struggling with the flood of refugees – the small ski town of Carbondale is home to 120 Venezuelan migrants seeking asylum.
Carbondale has just 2,000 residents and its mayor, Ben Bohmfalk, said it doesn't want to become a “destination” for migrants.
“We can't take in more people than we have now.” “We're really at the end of our rope,” he told local news last week.