Texas Sends Migrants To VP Harris’ Residence

Texas Sends Migrants To VP Harris’ Residence

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that two buses carrying migrants were sent from Texas to just outside Vice-President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington DC on Thursday, amid a growing political row over immigration.

 

The state’s Republican governor said the move was intentional and called for tighter immigration policies.

 

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It comes a day after Florida sent migrants to a Massachusetts island.

 

Both states appear to be escalating a tactic which has seen Republican states send migrants to Democratic areas.

 

As political tension over the number of people arriving at the US-Mexico border grows, states such as Texas and Arizona have sent thousands of migrants to cities such as Chicago, New York and Washington DC which they accuse of failing to fully enforce immigration laws.

 

While legal experts say the tactic will likely be challenged in court, it remains unclear what the legal basis for such a challenge would be.

 

Immigration groups in both Washington DC and the wealthy Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard said they were not given an advance warning about the arrivals.

 

Footage shown on Fox News showed two buses – reportedly carrying between 75 and 100 people – arriving near the vice-president’s residence and migrants, who were mostly from Venezuela, gathering their belongings and standing nearby. A non-governmental organisation later came and reportedly transported them to a church.

 

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“Harris claims our border is ‘secure’ [and] denies the crisis,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott later wrote on Twitter. “We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job and secure the border.”

 

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