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RFI interviewed Maureen Meyer, vice president of programs at the think tank WOLA in Washington, about the migrant buses that were abandoned outside the Washington residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris. “It’s a political message from the Republicans that doesn’t take human lives into account,” she warns.
The ferocious winter storm that has hit the United States since last week has left at least 50 dead, including cases of people who were found in snowbanks, in their cars or who died of cardiac arrest while shoveling snow.
In addition, this Monday the White House accused the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, of endangering the lives of several people, since buses loaded with more than a hundred migrants were left near the house of Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington.
It is already becoming customary in the United States to see buses full of migrants arrive at places governed by Democrats or closely related to President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris.
The three buses left the 100 people, including children, in the middle of the street where a temperature of almost minus 8 degrees Celsius was felt.
“The arrival of migrants in front of the house of Vice President Harris is a political tactic that has been used by some governors, especially the governor of Texas, Abbott, to send a political message to the federal government,” said Maureen Meyer, vice president of programs for the WOLA think tank in Washington.
For this analyst, however, these tactics also raise concerns.
“Aside from the fact that they are mainly a media hit, and that migrants are not taken into account at all, the problem is that these arrivals of migrants are made without giving any notice to the people who are going to receive them. Neither there is clarity about when they will arrive. All this complicates things a lot because it is not known how many volunteers are needed to receive them, what needs people have and what their final destination is. It should also be noted that the volunteer organizations in the area of Washington has been serving migrants who arrive by bus from the southern border since last March and April, so they do have a system to receive them, but in complicated conditions.”
Regarding the high-profile arrival of migrants on Christmas Eve, what strikes Meyer is “the extreme cold that hit the city at that time,” but also that there were people in T-shirts, without adequate clothing for the cold, they had to be given blankets “.
This WOLA analyst stresses that although these arrivals of migrants constitute a “political message from the Republicans”, what these politicians do not take into account is that “there are people in the middle.”
She concludes that “in the face of this humanitarian emergency, a much better response from the federal government would be needed with resources and ensuring coordination at the local and state levels, especially in the southern states of the United States that are receiving migrants.”
It is estimated that since April Texas has sent buses to states like Washington, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia some 16,000 migrants. Most of them went to the capital.
