白宫周日指责这是出于政治动机的“噱头”对于在零度以下乘坐公交车的移民来说前天晚上去了华盛顿特区。
一名迎接他们的倡导者告诉ABC新闻，周六，三辆载有139名移民的大巴从得克萨斯州抵达副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯位于海军天文台的住所外。
虽然没有官员或团体表示他们负责帮助运送人民到首都，但一些共和党国家领导人一直在用巴士运送移民，以抗议他们所谓的拜登政府失败的移民政策。
艾米·费舍尔(Amy Fischer)是移民团结互助网络的核心组织者，周六晚上7点45分左右，当公交车开始抵达时，她正在海军天文台外面
菲舍尔说，这些移民包括“一群家庭”，可能有30人左右，还有成年人，如配偶和表兄弟姐妹，以及独自旅行的人。
根据国家气象局的数据，当晚华盛顿的气温在10度左右。费希尔说，没有一个移民穿防寒服，尽管许多人有毯子裹着。
菲舍尔说，“绝大多数”是寻求庇护者，他们都说西班牙语，来自哥伦比亚、古巴、厄瓜多尔、秘鲁和尼加拉瓜。
她说，这些移民是格雷格·阿博特(Greg Abbott)政府从德克萨斯州派来的，尽管他的办公室没有回应美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)的置评请求。
艾伯特和亚利桑那州州长道格·杜西都是共和党人，几个月来定期向外输送移民民主党领导的地区。
“德克萨斯州的巴士战略成功地为我们的边境社区提供了急需的救济，这些社区因拜登总统不计后果的开放边境政策导致的历史性移民涌入而不堪重负，”阿博特在上个月的一份声明中声称。
Ducey的一名发言人告诉ABC新闻，亚利桑那州周六没有用巴士运送移民。
费舍尔说，她和其他一些来自援助网络的人帮助欢迎他们的到来，并指导他们中的许多人转移到一个“暂时休息的地方”——一个地区教堂，尽管费舍尔出于安全考虑拒绝透露它的身份。
菲舍尔说，在临时安置点可以得到热饭、衣服和卫生用品。一些移民在巴士把他们送到海军天文台后，让家人去接他们。
菲舍尔说，在那之后的两天里，她的团队已经帮助人们制定了前往最终目的地的进一步旅行计划，而计划留在华盛顿特区的“少数人”已经被安置到一家酒店，准备扎根。她说，这些人在离开德克萨斯州的时候，知道他们要去华盛顿。
“我认为人们总是有点困惑...人们总是有点害怕，”费舍尔说。
“从事这类工作，我最喜欢的事情之一是，当你去休息场所时，人们经常会问‘发生了什么事?“这是什么地方，””菲舍尔说道。但后来这种犹豫消失了:“我们播放着圣诞音乐，我们都穿着过时的圣诞毛衣，他们得到了热食，人们有点——你可以看到一些压力消失了。"
费舍尔说，大多数移民希望前往纽约和新泽西地区，但有些人去了南方，有些人去了华盛顿州。
更多:得克萨斯州州长格雷格·艾伯特说，第42条的结束将带来“全面混乱”
帮助移民在美国申请庇护的非营利组织“SAMU第一反应”也在移民周六抵达时与他们合作。
雅培之前用巴士运送了50名移民九月份去哈里斯家。
男性在八月份告诉ABC新闻的“夜间热线”“我们必须保护我们的边境，因为拜登政府没有保护好它。”
阿博特的办公室在8月份表示，超过6500名移民被巴士带到了纽约和华盛顿等城市。
在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时，费舍尔将雅培的公交策略比作为移民提供交通的“最残酷的方式”。但她也暗示，随着人们继续抵达南部边境，拜登政府过于关注政治分歧，而不是解决紧迫的后勤问题。
德克萨斯州应急管理部门的发言人九月告诉ABC新闻该州在运送移民上花费了1200多万美元，包括包租巴士和私人保安。
乔·拜登总统称这种策略是“非美国的”、“鲁莽的”和“完全错误的”。
白宫发言人阿卜杜拉·哈桑在周日的一份声明中说:“这是一个残忍、危险和可耻的噱头。”。
哈桑说:“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，比如拜登总统在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取得任何成果，只会将生命置于危险之中。”。
全国各地的移民都面临严寒天气
最新的移民巴士在德克萨斯州的埃尔帕索展开，一直在应对急剧涌入的人口当最高法院在权衡被称为第42章的公共卫生政策，这阻止了一些人因为新冠肺炎的威胁而在美国寻求庇护。裁决随时可能出台。
当局在该市平均每天遇到多达1500名移民，尽管各组织在寒冷中急忙为移民提供庇护，但ABC子公司KVIA报告称，上周晚些时候看到一些家庭在寒冷的条件下露宿街头。
她说，牧师苏·迪克森(Sue Dickson)当时正在一个非常靠近南部边境的教堂里布道，当时刚刚过来的移民开始走进教堂取暖。
“我们当然邀请他们‘和我们一起去朝拜’,然后我们很乐意这么做，”她说。一群教区居民开车将移民送到附近的一个取暖中心。
Dickson在Annunciation House担任志愿者，该公司经营着一个由四个接待点组成的网络，这些接待点临时收容通常试图联系全国其他城市家庭的移民。
她说，寒冷天气带来的最大挑战是，人们需要在没有合适衣服的情况下步行去公交车站、药店或市中心的商店。
“我们给人们温暖的夹克、帽子和手套，但当他们来找我们时，他们通常没有温暖的衣服，”她说。
抵达边境的人数之多同时在全国许多地区引起了反响遭受了严酷的冬季天气的打击。周末，丹佛向移民和其他个人开放了三个取暖中心，包括丹佛体育馆的一个。
White House denounces migrants being bused to VP's home on freezing Christmas Eve
The White House on Sunday blamed a politically motivated "stunt" for migrants being bused in subfreezing temperatures to Washington, D.C., the night before.
Three buses carrying 139 migrants from Texas arrived Saturday outside Vice President Kamala Harris' residence at the Naval Observatory, one advocate who greeted them told ABC News.
While no officials or groups said they were responsible for helping transport the people to the capital, some Republican state leaders have been busing migrants in protest of what they call the Biden administration's failed immigration policies.
Amy Fischer is a core organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network and was outside the Naval Observatory on Saturday night as buses began arriving after about 7:45 p.m.
Fischer said the migrants included "a bunch of families," maybe around 30, as well as adults in groups like spouses and cousins and people traveling alone.
Temperatures in Washington that night were in the teens, according to the National Weather Service. None of the migrants wore cold weather gear, Fischer said, though many had blankets to wrap up in.
The "vast majority" were asylum-seekers and all spoke Spanish, with people from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua, Fischer said.
She said the migrants were sent from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott's administration, though his office did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
Both Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who are Republicans, have for months been periodically sending migrants to Democratic-led areas of the country.
"Texas' busing strategy has successfully provided much-needed relief to our border communities overwhelmed by the historic influx of migrants caused by President Biden's reckless open border policies," Abbott contended in a statement last month.
A spokesman for Ducey told ABC News that Arizona did not bus the migrants on Saturday.
Fischer said that she and some others from the aid network helped welcome the people as they arrived and directed many of them to transport to a "respite location" -- an area church, though Fischer declined to identify it out of security concerns.
Warm meals, clothes and hygiene kits were available at the respite location, Fischer said. Some migrants had family picking them up after the buses deposited them at the Naval Observatory.
In the two days since, Fischer said, her group has helped people make further travel plans to their final destinations while a "handful of folks" who are planning to stay in D.C. have been relocated to a hotel as they prepare to put down roots. She said the groups left on the buses from Texas knowing they were headed to Washington.
"I think people are always a little bit confused ... People are always a little bit scared," Fischer said.
"That's one of my favorite things engaging in this type of work is when you go to the respite locations, people will often times walk in a little bit like 'what's going on? what is this place?'" Fischer said. But then that hesitation abates: "We had Christmas music playing and we're all wearing dorky Christmas sweaters and they get hot food and people kind of sort of -- you can see some of the stress dissolve."
Most of the migrants are looking to head to the New York and New Jersey areas but some are going to the South, some to Washington state, Fischer said.
The nonprofit SAMU First Response, which assists migrants making asylum claims in the U.S., also worked with the migrants as they arrived Saturday.
Abbott previously bused 50 migrants to Harris' home in September.
He told ABC News' "Nightline" in August that "we've got to secure our border because the Biden administration is not securing it."
Abbott's office said in August that more than 6,500 migrants had been taken by bus to cities like New York and Washington.
Speaking with ABC News, Fischer likened Abbott's busing strategy to the "cruelest way possible" to provide transportation for migrants. But she also suggested the Biden administration was overly focused on political differences rather than solving a pressing logistical issue as people continue to arrive at the southern border.
A spokesperson for the Texas Division of Emergency Management told ABC News in September that the state had spent more than $12 million on transporting the migrants, including charter buses and private security.
President Joe Biden has called such tactics "un-American," "reckless" and "simply wrong."
"This was a cruel, dangerous, and shameful stunt," White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan said in a statement on Sunday.
"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.
Migrants face freezing weather across the country
The latest migrant busing unfolds as El Paso, Texas, has been dealing with a steep influx of people arriving across the border as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of the public health policy known as Title 42, which prevents some people from seeking asylum in the U.S. because of the threat of COVID-19. A ruling could come any day.
Authorities have been encountering an average of up to 1,500 migrants per day in the city and while organizations rushed to shelter migrants in the cold, ABC affiliate KVIA reported seeing families sleeping on the streets in freezing conditions late last week.
Sue Dickson, a minister, was preaching a Christmas Eve service at a church that is very close to the southern border when immigrants who had just come across started coming into the church for warmth, she said.
"We of course invited them 'come worship with us' and then were very happy to do that," she said. A group of parishioners drove the migrants to a warming center nearby.
Dickson volunteers at the Annunciation House, which operates a network of four hospitality sites that temporarily house migrants who are typically trying to reach families in other cities across the country.
She said the biggest challenge the cold weather poses is when people need to walk to the bus station, the pharmacy or to downtown stores without the proper clothing.
“We give people warm jackets, hats and gloves but when they come to us they often don’t have warm clothes,” she said.
The high number of arrivals at the border has reverberated across the country at the same time many regions have been battered by brutal winter weather. Over the weekend, Denver opened up three warming centers to migrants and other individuals, including one at the Denver Coliseum.
