texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d.c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them wearing nothing warmer than a tee shirt we have it did not tell anyone ahead of time that he was gonn do this is the relief agency me the migrants from the vice president s home when they arrived. welcome them with food, warm clothing, and blankets they had been tipped off b another ngo working along th border, who made sure th migrants did not arrive in the freezing cold, on christmas eve, with no one to help them once they, arrived volunteer drove all of them to shelter to nearby church to wel
temperatures were hovering around 18 degrees. it was this, night we all abou welcoming the stranger, when the republican governor of texas decided to deposit migrant asylum seekers, some o them children, on a freezing cold sidewalk north to go. three buses filled with more than 100 migrants arrived in d c., late saturday night, where they were unceremoniousl dropped off outside the vice presidents official residence. they were sent there by th republican governor sent texas greg abbott, to make a political point of what happening at the souther border the buses were filled with families, with children, man of them wearing nothing warmer than a tee shirt we have it did not tell anyone ahead of time that he was gonn do this is the relief agency me the migrants from the vice president s home when they arrived. welcome them with food, warm clothing, and blankets they had been tipped off b another ngo working along th border, who made sure th migrants did not arrive in the freezi
hundreds of thousands of peopl have been sent from the border areas to san antonio, over the last few years, and the city our mayor in the city, and catholic charities and other organizations, have not take them and dump them on the road they might actually help the get to their family members by bus or by plane. so you can do it in a, way tha is humane, that doesn t ge everybody riled up, but is als efficient. i don t need to tell you, congressman, that what happens at our border is a fraction of u.s. immigration policy rashly talking about a much bigge broader system do you thin this upcoming congress can get anything done actually addresses some of the systemic issues that we see when it comes to immigration in america? look, we absolutely could we ve got a democratic president a democratic senate, and a republican house, so i v seen in the past where you hav divided government like that it actually provides a opportunity for compromise, an for people to come together an sit at
agenda, in line with other stunts on the other tactics. perhaps, democratic congressma joaquin castro reacting to his christmas eve stunt, summed up this moment of republica politics quote, how kristen of you. joining us, now texa democratic congressman joaquin castro congressman, thank yo for joining us i wanna get your reaction to the supreme court what does that mean practically? well, it means the title 42 is gonna stay in place for several more months, at leas until next june. and i actually agree wit justice gorsuch, a ver conservative supreme court justice whose or the title 4 is not meant to deal with th border it s meant to deal with covid. they never treated as an emergency, and it they re usin this policy on the border.
anything done actually addresses some of the systemic issues that we see when it comes to immigration in america? look, we absolutely could we ve got a democratic president a democratic senate, and a republican house, so i v seen in the past where you hav divided government like that it actually provides a opportunity for compromise, an for people to come together an sit at the table, and work something out. but it s gonna take a lo better faith among republicans to actually do something about immigration, rather than jus using the case and everything, or creating chaos and usin that as their number one political bogeyman, which is what they do now it s their number one bogeyman i wonder what your messag is to the average the doocy s, to the defenses of the world i would ask them to sto being predicts first of all, because that s what they re, doing and stop being heartless and actually help us solve thi challenge. not just trying to become th next - thank you so much for time th