Washington D.C, United States of America- Texas Governor Greg Abbot, on Thursday, sent two buses of migrants from the US-Mexico border, to near Vice-President Kamala Harris’s home where they were dropped off.
About two dozen men and women were seen standing outside the US Naval Observatory at dawn, clutching clear plastic bags of their belongings carried with them over the border, before moving to a nearby church.
“We are sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden administration to do its job and secure the border,” tweeted Abbott.
Abbot has been transporting migrants out of Texas to cities with Democrat Mayors as part of a political strategy because he claims there are too many arrivals over the border to his State.
On Wednesday, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida sent two planes to the moneyed Massachusetts retreat of Martha’s Vineyard.
DeSantis defended chartering private planes to drop mostly Venezuelan migrants on the wealthy and largely white island of Martha’s Vineyard, a place that is unused to handling an influx of South Americans with myriad needs.
“All those people in D.C. and New York were beating their chest when Trump was President, saying they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions. The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day are brought to their front door, they all go berserk,” said DeSantis.
More than one million undocumented migrants have been temporarily admitted during President Joe Biden’s tenure, part of a record-breaking cascade of irregular migration around the world.
Many of the recent arrivals come from countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua, with chilly diplomatic relations preventing the US from sending them home.
However, Republican-led States are increasingly deploying a tactic that involves sending migrants to places like Washington, New York and Massachusetts to protest the significant rise in illegal migration under President Biden.
The number of daily crossings along the southern border have increased over recent weeks, a typical pattern as the weather begins to cool. Over the past few days, there have been about 8 700 crossings a day, which is historically high. The El Paso and Del Rio regions in Texas have been seeing a bulk of the crossings. About 2 400 Venezuelans have been crossing in El Paso daily.
According to the United Nations (UN), the number of Venezuelans who have fled their country has hit approximately 6.8 million, tying with Ukraine’s exodus as the largest migration in the world. This migration is the result of an economic, social and democratic crisis that began in 2013.
