Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesĭC mayor declared an emergency over arrivals this monthĪfter Texas started busing migrants to the nation’s capital Arizona followed suit – and the two states have since sent thousands of migrants to Washington. Migrants head into vans near the US Naval Observatory after being dropped off there Thursday. She had a morning event scheduled at the White House, roughly a 2.5-mile drive away. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Harris was at the residence when the migrants were dropped off. Garcia said the volunteer-based organization will be going to Eagle Pass and Del Rio to stop the buses “before they leave” by putting people in front of the vehicles and “advising these immigrants of their legal rights so they are not used as political pawns.” That campaign will likely start “in the next week,” he said. That’s un-Christian un-Texan, un-American, and something that should not be allowed,” Domingo Garcia, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, told reporters Thursday afternoon outside Harris’ residence. “They were just literally dumped like human garbage in front of the vice president’s house. The leader of a civil rights organization working with Hispanic Americans also blasted Abbott for the busing on Thursday. “Yes, we are receiving them, but what happened this morning and them being left in the middle of the sidewalk without coordination is what makes this job extremely challenging,” Laborde said. Migrants are welcome in Washington but “the lack of collaboration” from Texas makes logistics difficult, Laborde said. Volunteers late Thursday morning were coordinating with other agencies to have them received elsewhere, and “we’re expecting that about half of those in the bus today are going to be on their way later this afternoon,” Laborde said. Some are trying to go to other places in the US, such as New York and Chicago, volunteers said. The migrants eventually were moved to a local church as they figured out where to go next. The migrants numbered more than 100, and their nations of origin also included Colombia, Cuba, Guyana, Nicaragua and Panama, Abbott’s office said. Around 70% to 80% of the migrants are from Venezuela, according to volunteers. Thursday’s passengers included families and young men. “(The migrants) didn’t understand where they were standing – this is a very residential area.” “By the time our team got to the migrants, they were very lost,” Laborde told CNN late Thursday morning. SAMU First Response, one of the groups helping migrants in Washington, was not provided a heads up, according to the group’s managing director, Tatiana Laborde. Since Abbott started sending buses of migrants to Washington in April, those buses usually have stopped around Union Station, and volunteers were prepared to receive two buses Thursday at the station, they said.īut Thursday’s buses stopped instead at the Naval Observatory, some four miles away. “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.” “VP Harris claims our border is ‘secure’ & denies the crisis,” Abbott tweeted. Ron DeSantis claims credit for sending 2 planes carrying migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Jeff Swensen/Getty Images During his visit to the state, DeSantis urged Republican voters to stand behind Doug Mastriano. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Unite and Win Rally in support of Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano at the Wyndham Hotel on Augin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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