Another busload of illegal immigrants was dropped off near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) is the official residence of the vice president of the United States, and the latest migrant drop-off is one of the first buses to arrive from Texas in months.
SAMU First Response and Mutual Aid volunteers met the migrants, who included men, women, and children from Venezuela. They were then transferred to another bus, which will transport them to a designated location so their immediate needs can be determined and their next course of action can be planned.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending dozens of buses filled with illegal immigrants to Harris’ home since last year in an effort to pressure the Biden administration to take action on immigration enforcement and border security.
Abbott earlier promised to keep delivering migrants to Democratic areas, blaming the Biden administration for what he sees as an excessive influx of migrants. Arizona has also been working with neighborhood D.C. authorities to transport migrants to Washington.
In September, over 100 migrants were dropped off at the Naval Observatory, many of whom are from Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia, and Mexico.
“Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure,’” Abbott said at the time.
This comes as the Biden administration continues to struggle with the massive influx of migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico. The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since President Joe Biden announced last year that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has reported that nearly 2.4 million migrants were detained at the border for the fiscal year ending in September, surpassing the already-historic number of 1.7 million migrant detainees in 2021. The numbers are likely to increase now that “Title 42” has been lifted.
