Another bus transporting migrants from the southern border has arrived at the Washington DC residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, while three more buses arrived in New York City.
On Saturday morning at the Naval Observatory in DC, a charter bus with Texas plates dropped off about 50 people, mostly from Venezuela, including several children and a one-month-old infant, Fox News reported.
Aid workers quickly swooped in to remove the group from the vice president’s doorstep, taking them to a local shelter for support services.
Three additional buses arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan early on Saturday, days after the border crisis shot to national attention when a plane full of migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, is believed to be behind the latest migrant bus transports, but a spokesperson for the governor did not immediately return a phone message from DailyMail.com.
On Saturday morning at the Naval Observatory in DC, a charter bus with Texas plates dropped off about 50 people (above), mostly from Venezuela, including several children
The bus with Texas plates dropped the migrants off outside the vice president’s DC residences, days after Florida flew about 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
Three additional buses arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan early on Saturday (above). They are also thought to be from Texas
On Thursday, Abbott did confirm responsibility for sending two buses of migrants to the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s residence, saying it was intended to call attention to Harris’s failure to control the border.
President Joe Biden tasked Harris last year with tackling the ‘root causes’ of unauthorized immigration, but since then, the number of people entering the country illegally has shot to record highs.
‘The Biden-Harris Administration continues ignoring and denying the historic crisis at our southern border, which has endangered and overwhelmed Texas communities for almost two years,’ said Abbott in a statement.
‘Texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C. until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border,’ he added.
Since April, Texas has transported more than 11,000 migrants by bus to Democrat-controlled states and cities, including 8,000 to DC and 2,500 to New York City.
At least 600 migrants from Texas have also been transported to Chicago since late August.
On Thursday (above), two buses with about 100 migrants also arrived at the Naval Observatory
‘The busing mission is providing much-needed relief to our overwhelmed border communities,’ Abbott’s office said in a statement on Friday.
Critics have slammed the migrant transports as cruel and inhumane stunts, accusing Abbott and other GOP governors of using migrants as pawns to score political points.
On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis escalated the campaign dramatically by flying a group of 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, the wealthy island enclave in Massachusetts.
On Friday, that group of migrants was transported off the island to a military base on Cape Cod.
Many of them have said they were told they would be flying to Boston and only learned they were headed to Martha’s Vineyard when the plane was in the air.
‘They were told that they would have a job and they would have housing,’ said Elizabeth Folcarelli, who leads Martha’s Vineyard Community Services and described the scramble for shelter as a ‘huge challenge,’ in an AP interview.
Julio Henriquez, an attorney who met with several migrants, said they ‘had no idea of where they were going or where they were.’
Martha’s Vineyard declared an emergency over the migrants and called in the National Guard, prompting the immigrants to be moved 32 miles away to Cape Cod
Pictured: A group of 50 migrants enjoyed Venezuelan dishes at the military base after Martha’s Vineyard declared an emergency over the group’s arrival
DeSantis said Friday that most migrants intended to come to Florida and that the trip to Martha´s Vineyard was voluntary. He did not address the migrants’ claims that they were told they were going elsewhere.
Florida’s governor defended picking up migrants in Texas and vowed to continue transportation to immigrant-friendly ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions.
US Rep Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, accused DeSantis of orchestrating a political ploy with the lives of the migrants.
‘Playing politics with people’s lives is what governors like George Wallace did during segregation,’ Moulton said, referring to Wallace’s tactics of tricking black Southerners to move north. ‘Ron DeSantis is trying to earn George Wallace’s legacy.’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also took aim at DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a press conference today, urging other Republicans who do not agree with their ‘blueprint’ to ‘speak up’.
She said: ‘This is an issue and we have been clear about this, this is an issue that is inhumane it is abhorrent and we should not be using people, migrants, who are fleeing communism as a political pawn.’
Speaking on Thursday, DaSantis accused critics of his move to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard of ‘virtue signaling’, saying their concern for the welfare of the migrants was a ‘fraud’.
He said: ‘The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they go berserk, and they’re so upset that this is happening.’
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