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Vice President Kamala Harris dealt coldly with dozens of immigrants after two buses were dumped outside her DC residence on Christmas Eve, one of the coldest nights on record.
The group stood outside in the freezing 18-degree temperatures, some wearing only T-shirts, CNN reported. Some were given blankets and placed on another bus heading to a local church.
It’s unclear who is responsible for sending the Christmas Eve migrants to the Naval Observatory Saturday night in dangerously cold temperatures, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott admitted he had sent buses of migrants north, including to a location outside from the Harris home, in September. .
On Saturday night, three buses of asylum seekers sent by Abbott were headed to New York but had to reroute due to weather, CNN’s Noah Gray tweeted.
The tweet read: ‘Amy Fischer from Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network tells me the 3 buses [sic] of asylum seekers were sent by Texas and were originally headed for New York but “relocated to DC due to weather,” buses [sic] they were picked up by the DC government: the immigrants were bused to a DC church.
Migrants lined up near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris on Christmas Eve.
Vice President Kamala Harris dealt coldly with dozens of immigrants after busloads were dumped in front of the vice president’s DC residence on Christmas Eve, one of the coldest nights on record.
Three hours earlier, Gray said a man told him he “flew two days from Texas and came from Ecuador.”
“He said he was happy to be here,” Gray said. “The bus includes children and women, transferred to another bus by aid workers on the ground after briefly being outside in 14 degrees.”
Early Saturday night, an administrative official said two buses with migrants were transported to local shelters, but more buses had arrived and the migrants were dropped off outside the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory.
Tatiana Laborde, managing director of the international humanitarian nonprofit SAMU First Response, said the DC community has received buses from Texas since migrants began arriving in April. She explained that freezing temperatures and the Christmas Eve holidays are “no different.”
“We are always here welcoming people with open arms,” Laborde added.
Abbott is not the only politician who has staunchly opposed Biden’s immigration policies. Three other Republican governors have also shown their disdain, busing or ferrying immigrants north this year in a show of defiance, CNN rexports
The tweet that CNN’s Noah Gray posted during the arrival of buses full of new immigrants arriving outside the home of VP Kamala Harris DC
Asylum seekers stood in dangerously cold temperatures, many without proper clothing and covered in blankets that were issued.
On Friday, the border patrol reported having more than 233,000 encounters with migrants in November, the highest total ever recorded for November and an increase of 33 percent over the same period last year.
The encounters are counted as a combination of border patrol field workers and border patrol agents firing people trying to cross the border or detaining them after trespassing.
The Biden administration is under increasing pressure to resolve the crisis and has asked the Supreme Court to delay ending Covid-era Title 42, which makes it easier for the U.S. to remove undocumented immigrants, until after 7 p.m. Vacations.
The Biden-Harris team is currently facing scrutiny over the chaos at the US-Mexico border, as thousands of migrants are expected to try to seek asylum or slip through.
Desperate migrants huddled at bus stops and pitched makeshift tents in sub-zero temperatures in El Paso after making their long and treacherous journeys to Texas.
After battling looting cartels, trekking through dangerous jungles and cramming overcrowded fishing boats, many of the exhausted asylum seekers told DailyMail.com they were relieved to have made it to the US before the end. imminent of the rules of the Covid era.
Title 42 was set to expire on Wednesday, but Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted its end and the Biden administration then asked the Supreme Court to keep it in effect until December 27. The Supreme Court has yet to respond.
The rush of immigrants to cross with Title 42 in place may seem counterintuitive, because the policy makes it easier for the US to expel undocumented immigrants. But many anticipated that its lifting would make crossing difficult, at least temporarily, due to the increased number of migrants and the military presence at the border.
More than 400 National Guard soldiers were deployed Tuesday ahead of the policy’s expected end, prompting dozens more asylum seekers to flee toward the border to avoid grim clashes.
Officials said that 2,500 migrants arrived daily in El Paso over the weekend, a number that could rise to “4,000, 5,000, maybe 6,000.”
Many believe that number could be even higher when Title 42 ends, with Axios Reports 14,000 daily crossings could be produced.
At Capehart’s Washington Post column, writes that Harris had “a bumper year,” saying, “President Biden’s electoral right-hand man, ma’am, is wrapping up a banner year filled with domestic bickering and tightrope diplomacy.”
He first cited Harris’s appearance at the Munich Security Conference in February, where he sounded the alarm about the upcoming Russian invasion of Ukraine.
However, Harris was roundly mocked for saying that Europe had enjoyed ’70 years of peace and security’ since World War II.
Harris has faced other blunders, including mixing North and South Korea in a speech while bypassing the DMZ, and stumbling over a speech on job development.
She also passionately defended her role defending abortion rights in the wake of the Dobbs ruling,
According to excerpts released from a new book on the first two years of the Biden administration by political on Tuesday, Biden called Harris a “work in progress” and snapped at her and second gentleman Doug Emhoff after hearing their complaints about his role in the administration.
Temperatures Friday night are expected to dip to 19F in El Paso, where sidewalks serve as living quarters outside a bus station for some immigrants who can’t find space in the city’s growing network of crowded shelters.
Across the border from El Paso in Ciudad Juárez, a group of Venezuelan migrants sought shelter from the cold under blankets by a campfire in a dirt alley next to a crumbling cinder block wall.
‘We are from the coast [of Venezuela] with a lot of sun and the cold affects us [here]’, said Rafael González, 22, a native of La Guaira, on the Caribbean coast. ‘The shelter here is very crowded… And that means it’s our turn to be here, making a small fire.’
Those lucky enough to find shelter often find themselves in tight, cramped places.
He and others said they are anxious to find out if the United States will lift restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum at the border.
Title 42 applies to all nationalities, but it has most affected people from countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and, most recently, Venezuela.
Immigration advocates have filed a lawsuit to end the use of Title 42. They say the policy runs counter to US and international obligations to people fleeing persecution and is outdated now that treatments for covid- 19 have improved.
Conservative-leaning states appealed to the Supreme Court, warning that an increase in migration would affect public services and cause “unprecedented calamity.”
In El Paso, members of the Texas National Guard have taken up positions at the behest of the state, while volunteers and law enforcement fear some migrants may succumb to the cold. Nighttime temperatures have been in the 30s and will be even colder over the next few days.
The graph here shows migrant crossings on the southwest border
Elsewhere, hundreds of migrants set up a makeshift camp – using black plastic bags as crude tents – and lined up for hot drinks in a park in Matamoros, Mexico, near Brownsville, Texas.
Shivering with cold after his recent expulsion from the US, a former military police officer in the Venezuelan navy, Carlos Hernández, spoke about how he, his wife and their three-year-old daughter recently struggled through the cold border river, only to to return. after reaching the other side.
Hernández said he had a fight with his superiors in Venezuela for refusing to take orders to take action against government opponents in the navy. He said he hoped to cross again and eventually make it to Canada.
“It was very cold,” he said of the river crossing.
Hairdresser Grisel Garcés survived a harrowing four-month journey from her native Venezuela through tropical jungles, immigration detention centers in southern Mexico and then journeys in train cars north toward the US border.