A bus with 50 migrants from Texas arrived on Saturday at the home of the vice president, Kamala Harris, in Washington DC In addition, six other buses also arrived in New York.
Most of them are Venezuelan migrants and in the group there was a one-month-old baby, according to reports.
The group joined 100 others who were dropped off outside Harris's official residence on Thursday
,
near the main guard gate of the US Naval Observatory.
In New York, the buses full of migrants from the city of El Paso joined the dozens that have already arrived in the city and have been placed in shelters, after the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, gave the order to send people to sanctuary cities.
Migrants from Venezuela, who boarded a bus in Texas, wait to be transported to a local church by volunteers after being dropped off outside the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2022.AFP via Getty Images
The arrival of these groups on Saturday comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis paid for the transfer of 50 migrants on two planes to the millionaire island of Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday.
DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said this shipment is "part of the state's relocation program to transport [asylum seekers crossing the border] to sanctuary sites."
[This is how Ron DeSantis defended his decision to send migrants to Martha's Vineyard]
Several of the migrants who arrived in the area said that a woman, whom they only identified as Perla, tricked them in San Antonio, Texas, into boarding the two flights on Wednesday, promising that they would be transferred to Boston and they would speed up the procedures to obtain their work permits as asylum seekers.
The incessant arrival of migrants overwhelms the care systems of El Paso and New York
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In an exclusive interview with Vice News, the vice president charged.
Republican governors from "playing" with people.
"These are political maneuvers with real human beings fleeing harm
," Harris said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, asked the Department of Justice on Thursday to open an investigation into "possible criminal or civil violations" for Florida sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard "for political purposes."