Busloads of migrants dropped off at vice president’s DC home on Christmas Eve - The Hill

Multiple busloads of migrants were dropped disconnected astatine Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence successful Washington, D.C. connected Saturday — Christmas Eve — leaving migrants connected the streets successful below-freezing temperatures, according to aggregate reports.

Three busloads of migrants were driven to D.C., ABC 7 reported, and arrived extracurricular the Naval Observatory, which is the vice president’s residence. The migrants were aboriginal taken to a religion by the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, a section assistance group.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was liable for Saturday’s incident, according to ABC 7 and Fox News, marking the latest occurrence successful a months-long effort by the politician to nonstop migrants to democratic-run cities arsenic a mode to promote the Biden medication to instrumentality steps to power migration successful the U.S.

In September, Abbott sent 2 buses afloat of migrants to Harris’s resilience successful D.C., sparking criticism among Democrats. Other Republican governors, including Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Arizona’s Doug Ducey, person transported migrants to democratic-run cities crossed the state successful caller months.

“Tonight, connected Christmas Eve, Gov Abbott’s buses dropped disconnected migrants astatine the VP’s location successful the freezing cold,” the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network wrote connected Twitter aboriginal Sunday. “This is not new, it has been happening for 8 months.”

Abbott penned a letter to President Biden past Tuesday demanding that the medication nonstop national assets to code the concern astatine the border, particularly arsenic temperatures driblet and a wintertime tempest approached Texas.

“You and your medication indispensable halt the prevarication that the borderline is unafraid and, instead, instantly deploy national assets to code the dire problems you person caused,” Abbott wrote. “You indispensable execute the duties that the U.S. Constitution mandates you execute and unafraid the confederate borderline earlier much guiltless lives are lost.”

In a connection Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it “continues to afloat enforce our migration and nationalist wellness laws astatine the border.”

“Individuals and families attempting to participate without authorization are being expelled, arsenic required by tribunal bid nether the Title 42 nationalist wellness authority, oregon placed into removal proceedings. As temperatures stay dangerously debased each on the border, nary 1 should enactment their lives successful the hands of smugglers, oregon hazard beingness and limb attempting to transverse lone to beryllium returned,” DHS added.

The bureau said 23,000 agents and officers are “working to unafraid the Southwest borderline and the United States Government continues to enactment intimately with our partners successful Mexico to reenforce coordinated enforcement operations to people quality smuggling organizations and bring them to justice.”

The Supreme Court past Monday temporarily stopped the expiration of Title 42, the Trump-era argumentation that allows borderline officials to crook distant asylum seekers due to the fact that of nationalist wellness concerns. If it does yet expire, Abbott said the fig of individuals entering Texas illegally “will lone increase.”

The Hill reached retired to the White House and Abbott for comment.