华盛顿-在平安夜创纪录的严寒中，三辆载有最近移民家庭的大巴从得克萨斯州抵达副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的家附近。
得克萨斯州当局尚未证实他们的参与，但巴士落客符合边境州州长此前呼吁关注拜登政府的行动移居政策。
救援机构SAMU第一反应(First Response)的董事总经理塔蒂亚娜·拉博德(Tatiana Laborde)说，周六晚些时候抵达副总统官邸外的巴士载有大约110至130人，该机构与华盛顿市合作，为最近几个月被放下的数千名移民提供服务。
拉博德说，当地组织者原本预计巴士将于周日抵达，但周六发现该团体将提前抵达华盛顿。船上的人包括小孩。
尽管气温徘徊在华氏15度(-9摄氏度)左右，一些人还是穿着T恤衫。据《华盛顿邮报》报道，这是华盛顿有记录以来最冷的平安夜。
拉博德说，员工们已经为抵达平安夜的人们准备好了毯子，并迅速将他们转移到等候的公交车上，以便前往当地的教堂。当地一家连锁餐厅捐赠了晚餐和早餐。
大多数抵达者前往其他目的地，预计只会在华盛顿短暂停留。
格雷格·阿博特(Greg Abbott)的办公室周日上午没有回应置评请求。他的办公室上周表示，自4月以来，德克萨斯州已经让超过15，000人乘坐公交车前往华盛顿、纽约、芝加哥和费城。
共和党人阿博特和亚利桑那州州长道格·杜西都是总统的强烈批评者乔·拜登在他处理美墨边境的问题上，每天都有数千人试图穿越边境，许多人是为了寻求庇护。边境两侧的官员都在寻求紧急帮助，为移民建立避难所和服务，其中一些人露宿街头。
共和党人认为，拜登和哈里斯被指定为政府在移民根源问题上的关键人物，他们放松了限制，导致许多人离开他们的原籍国。拜登终止了一些政策，但保留了前总统颁布的其他政策唐纳德·特朗普美国政府也在努力解决过境人数激增的问题，并一度将移民家庭和儿童分开，作为一项威慑举措。
白宫发言人阿卜杜拉·哈桑称公交车落客是“残忍、危险和可耻的噱头”
哈桑周日在一份声明中说:“正如我们反复说过的那样，我们愿意与任何人合作，无论是共和党人还是民主党人，共同寻找真正的解决方案，比如拜登总统上任第一天向国会提交的全面移民改革和边境安全措施，但这些政治游戏不会带来任何结果，只会将生命置于危险之中。”
Migrants dropped near VP Harris home on frigid Christmas Eve
WASHINGTON -- Three buses of recent migrant families arrived from Texas near the home of Vice President Kamala Harris in record-setting cold on Christmas Eve.
Texas authorities have not confirmed their involvement, but the bus drop-offs are in line with previous actions by border-state governors calling attention to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
The buses that arrived late Saturday outside the vice president's residence were carrying around 110 to 130 people, according to Tatiana Laborde, managing director of SAMU First Response, a relief agency working with the city of Washington to serve thousands of migrants who have been dropped off in recent months.
Local organizers had expected the buses to arrive Sunday but found out Saturday that the group would get to Washington early, Laborde said. The people on board included young children.
Some were wearing T-shirts despite temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9 degrees Celsius). It was the coldest Christmas Eve on record for Washington, according to the Washington Post.
Laborde said employees had blankets ready for the people who arrived on Christmas Eve and moved them quickly onto waiting buses for a ride to an area church. A local restaurant chain donated dinner and breakfast.
Most of the arrivals were headed to other destinations and expected to remain in Washington only briefly.
Gov. Greg Abbott's office did not respond to a request for comment Sunday morning. His office said last week that Texas has given bus rides to more than 15,000 people since April to Washington, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, are strong critics of President Joe Biden on his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border, where thousands of people are trying to cross daily, many to seek asylum. Officials on both sides of the border are seeking emergency help in setting up shelters and services for migrants, some of whom are sleeping on streets.
Republicans argue Biden and Harris, designated the administration's point person on the root causes of migration, have relaxed restrictions that induced many people to leave their countries of origin. Biden has ended some policies but kept others enacted by former President Donald Trump, whose administration also grappled with spikes in border crossings and at one point separated immigrant families and children as a deterrence initiative.
White House spokesperson Abdullah Hasan called the bus drop-offs a “cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt.”
“As we have repeatedly said, we are willing to work with anyone – Republican or Democrat alike – on real solutions, like the comprehensive immigration reform and border security measures President Biden sent to Congress on his first day in office, but these political games accomplish nothing and only put lives in danger," Hasan said in a statement Sunday.
