Three buses with immigrants were sent by the Republican governor of Texas to Washington on Christmas Eve, and one of them stopped this Sunday in front of the official residence of the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, local media reported.
The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has sent dozens of buses with migrants to the states controlled by the Democrats since April as a form of protest against Joe Biden’s immigration policy, a gesture widely criticized by human rights organizations in the US. .
The people who got off the buses today were quickly assisted by social organizations that have been helping these migrants for months with clothing, food and shelter.
Some migrants arrived in Washington wearing only a shirt, in the midst of a winter storm that battered the country and caused the coldest Christmas in decades, reported CNN.
This week, several states in the country governed by Republicans, including Texas, managed in court to postpone the suspension of Title 42, a federal health policy that allows expressly deporting people who cross the border illegally, without requesting asylum.
This regulation, applied by the Donald Trump administration (2017-2021), and also used by Joe Biden, should have ceased to apply on December 22 by court order, but the Supreme Court froze the decision.
In recent days, thousands of people have crossed the border with Mexico and many have concentrated in the city of El Paso (Texas), where they had to sleep outdoors, despite the low temperatures, add local media.
Source: TSF
