GOP governors continue sending migrants, including babies, to Democratic states

Republican governors this week continued ramping up the controversial apply of sending migrants to Democratic states in a transfer critics are calling a political stunt. Arriving by bus and aircraft in Sacramento, California, dozens of migrant households, together with youngsters, had been dropped off with none course or help.

Help employees stated some migrants who walked from a Sacramento airport on the lookout for shelter ended up sleeping in a park. 

"Utilizing folks as political pawns to make a political level is improper, and that is actually an immoral factor for whoever is doing it to be doing," Autumn Gonzalez, a volunteer with the nonprofit group NorCal Resist, instructed CBS Information.

New York Metropolis's shelters are additionally on the breaking level. Mayor Eric Adams stated town has opened 23 emergency shelters, and is even contemplating utilizing cruise ships as housing.

"We're taking a look at that as a brief measure, not as a everlasting measure," Adams stated. "A everlasting measure is get folks into housing."

Republican governors of border states stated they won't cease sending migrants to Democratic cities in an effort to impress President Biden to behave on border safety.  

"We wish to make it possible for taxpayers aren't having to foot tens of 1000's, or 1000's of individuals, coming in illegally," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated. "And that is the simplest solution to do it."

Saturday morning, a bus from Texas dropped off migrants within the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Vice President Kamala Harris.

"About 50 migrants, plenty of youngsters," stated Tatiana Laborde, managing director for the nonprofit group SAMU First Response. "And there is a few one-month-old child on the bus."

Asylum-seekers flown in earlier this week to Martha's Winery, Massachusetts, obtained hugs and presents from residents, earlier than they had been transported to a army base in Cape Cod.  

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard
A Venezuelan migrant is led onto a bus at St. Andrews Episcopal Church on Sept. 16, 2022, in Edgartown, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Winery. A bunch of migrants was flown to the island from Texas earlier this week, leaving them stranded. They're right here being transferred to a Cape Cod army base. 

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service/Getty Pictures

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