Several busloads of migrants were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve in 18 degree weather late Saturday.
A total of three busloads stopped in Northwest D.C., filled with migrants taken there from Texas to the Naval Observatory.
The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network was there to take all three busloads of people to a church, to help provide them with necessary resources and welcome them to the country. They were given warm food and clothes.
Amy Fischer, a core organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, said this was another political stunt by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, using people as pawns.
“It really does show the cruelty behind Gov. Abbott and his insistence on continuing to bus people here without care about people arriving late at night on Christmas Eve when the weather is so cold. People are getting off the buses, they don’t have coats, they don’t have clothes for this kind of weather, and they’re freezing,” Fischer said.
Busloads of migrants have been arriving in Washington weekly since April.