Colorado Governor Jared Polis has failed to strike the right chord with his rendition of the Christmas hit Feliz Navidad as his state is overwhelmed by immigrants.
Polis delivered the chilling Christmas message on Christmas Eve, complete with questionable dance moves as he bounced up and down.
Without musical accompaniment, he couldn't hide how out of tune his singing was when he butchered José Feliciano's earworm in 1970.
Luckily, the entire display was only 14 seconds long and not the entire three-minute Puerto Rican Christmas carol that is a staple of holiday mixtapes.
The video comes as liberal-led Colorado continues to see an influx of migrants, with more than a dozen busloads from the southern border arriving in Denver in recent days.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has failed to strike the right chord with his portrayal of Feliz Navidad
Even Coloradans who spoke Spanish fluently found it painful to hear and accused him of pandering to the Hispanic community.
Polis' timing was unfortunate when, hours earlier, 16 busloads of immigrants from Texas arrived after crossing the U.S. border.
There were 341 buses in the final convoy, nine buses arriving in Denver Thursday evening and another seven on Friday.
Texas Governor 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.
As many as 10,000 asylum seekers cross the southern border every day, 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 tents on the streets, with 100 buses expected before the end of December.
Denver is housing 3,822 migrants, up from 3,135 in mid-October, in shelters and tents on the streets, with 100 buses expected before the end of December
City figures show that 33,325 people have arrived since the crisis began last year, at a cost of $35 million to care for them.
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 stretched thin and Mayor Mike Johnston was one of five who went to Washington DC to ask for more federal funding for the migrant crisis.
Mayor Johnson was joined by those of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston when he asked for an additional $5 billion last month.
“Our cities need additional resources far greater than the proposed amount to properly care for the asylum seekers entering our communities,” they wrote.
“Depending on municipal budgets is not sustainable and has forced us to cut back on essential city services.”
Denver Department of Human Services spokesman Jon Ewing called on locals who spoke English and Spanish to work at the shelters.
'We were actually able to hire more than 200 people. “They are coming in 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
'Yet, with the holidays and the sheer number of people coming in every day, staffing remains an issue. What we need is for that community support to continue into the new year because it doesn't slow down.”
Mayor Johnston has remained fairly pro-immigration in his public comments, saying the main problem was the migrants' inability to work legally as he sought funding and work permits from the federal government.
Behind closed doors, however, the city council indicated that the city was full and could not accommodate any more newcomers.
Local authorities in October asked officials in border towns to hand out flyers 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, asked officials in Brownsville, El Paso, Houston and Dallas to tell migrants that Denver “can no longer provide the same level of shelter for newly arrived individuals.”
The flyers include messages such as, “Denver's resources are depleted,” “the city cannot provide long-term shelter,” and “housing in Denver is very expensive and there are not many affordable housing options available.”
There were 341 buses in the final convoy, nine buses arrived in Denver Thursday evening and another seven on Friday
New York Mayor Eric Adams accused Polis in January of launching a “dishonest” 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 because no emergency had been declared, state officials sent civilian workers instead.
Denver isn't the only part of Colorado struggling to deal with migrants; the small ski town of Carbondale is home to 120 Venezuelan migrants seeking asylum.
Carbondale has just 2,000 residents and Mayor Ben Bohmfalk said it did not want to become a “destination” for migrants.
'We can't take more people than we have now. We are really beyond what we can handle,” he told local news last week.