More migrants dropped off outside vice president's home in freezing weather on Christmas Eve - CNN

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Several busloads of migrants were dropped disconnected successful beforehand of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence successful Washington, DC, connected Christmas Eve successful 18 grade upwind precocious Saturday.

An archetypal 2 busloads were taken to section shelters, according to an medication official. More buses arrived extracurricular the vice president’s residence aboriginal Saturday evening. A CNN squad saw migrants being dropped off, with immoderate migrants wearing lone T-shirts successful the freezing weather. They were fixed blankets and enactment connected different autobus that went to a section church.

Amy Fischer, a unpaid with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, which has been receiving migrants sent to DC since the spring, said her enactment was prepared for Saturday night’s arrivals. Busloads of migrants person been arriving successful Washington play since April.

“The DC assemblage has been welcoming buses from Texas anytime they’ve travel since April. Christmas Eve and freezing acold upwind is nary different,” she said. “We are ever present welcoming folks with unfastened arms.”

It’s not wide who is liable for sending the migrants to the Naval Observatory, though CNN reported earlier this twelvemonth that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had sent buses of migrants north, including to a determination extracurricular Harris’ home.

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Abbott is 1 of astatine slightest 3 Republican governors who person taken recognition for busing oregon flying migrants northbound this twelvemonth to protestation the Biden administration’s migration policies. He antecedently confirmed successful September that his authorities had sent the buses to Harris’ residence at that time.

CORRECTION: An earlier mentation of this communicative misidentified the idiosyncratic who spoke astir her radical being prepared for the migrant arrivals. It was Amy Fischer, a unpaid with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network.