On December 24, a surprise took Kamala Harristhe vice president of the United States, when at the door of her house she saw around 120 migrants, among whom were women and children unprotected in the face of the icy temperatures temperatures that are registered in the country during these times.
At Harris’s residence, located in the capital, Washington DC, the migrants arrived by order of Greg Abbott, Governor of the State of TexasRepublican and ultra-right.
Abbott has expressed similar ideas in the company of other counterparts from the same political spectrum, such as Ron DeSantis, governor of the state of Florida, and Doug Ducey, governor of Arizona, who have also transported migrants to cities governed by Democrats.
According to local media, Amy Fischeran organizer of the Red de Ayuda Mutual Solidarity with Migrantsmentioned on a local news station called ABC7 that Abbott used the transfer of migrants to the vice president’s house as a political trick.
“It really shows the cruelty behind Governor Abbott and your insistence on continuing to shuttle people here without worrying regarding people arriving late on Christmas Eve when the weather is so cold. people will Get off the buses, no coatsHe has no clothes for this type of weather and is freezing,” Fischer told the US media.
Members of the NGO Samu provided assistance to the more than one hundred people left at the door of the president. The people were reportedly taken to a church located in the Capitol neighborhood.
This type of “dirty tricks”, as the fact of leaving buses occupied by migrants at the doors of Democratic leaders by Republicans has been described, are not new. Last October they were dropped off outside Harris’s residence. 41 migrants on a bus, including 11 children who in its Most were of Venezuelan origin.
In a statement on December 16, the Customs and Protection Office The United States border announced that 233,740 migrants had been detained at the border south in the month of November, registering the highest number ever counted for this month in previous years.
Additionally, according to official information, between January and August 2022 regarding 69,000 Venezuelan citizens had crossed the border between Colombia and Panama, a number that exceeds by more than 50% the figure of the previous year.
Regarding the transfer of migrants, orchestrated by the governor of Texas, to the house of the vice president of the US, the White House ruled on December 25 rejecting the act entirely and blaming Greg Abbott for endangering the lives of migrants.
Currently, the United States lives a migratory crisis that can be evidenced in the non-profit shelters of cities like El Paso, in Texas, where the occupation is total and on the outskirts of the shelters children and women are seen forced to drift overnight while waiting for space in the winter wave.
last December 22 the United States Department of Homeland Security reminded the public that the country’s borders were not open. “Severe weather will force temperatures to dangerously low levels this week. This is a dangerous situation. Do not put your life at risk,” read the department’s Twitter account.
