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Lead] A bus with 100 illegal immigrants arrived in front of the vice president's official residence in the United States, where it was very cold.

There were also people on the bus wearing summer clothes in the middle of winter.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won from New York will tell you more about who did this and why.



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On the night of the 24th, in front of Vice President Kamala Harris' official residence in Washington DC, people wrapped in blankets lined up to get off the bus.



The governor of Texas, a Republican, transported more than 100 illegal immigrants from Central and South America in three buses without warning.



On this day, the temperature in Washington was severely cold, falling close to minus 10 degrees, and some immigrants were wearing short sleeves.



Fortunately, a relief organization moved them safely to a nearby church.



Originally, the destination of the illegal immigrants was New York.



However, at the time of Christmas Eve, the temperature here in New York City fell to minus 15 degrees Celsius, so it is known that the destination was moved to the Washington DC Vice President Harris' house, which is further south.



Some Southern states with Republican governors, such as Texas and Florida, have sent immigrants to the Northeast, where Democrats rule, in protest of the moderate immigration policy.



It is a protest in the form of experiencing the inconvenience caused by illegal immigrants, but recently, as the court put the brakes on the so-called 'Executive Order No. 42' introduced by the previous Trump administration to allow illegal immigrants to be deported immediately, conflict is being amplified.



This is because Latin American migrants are flocking to the US border with Mexico in large numbers in hopes of ending the deportation policy.



[Illegal immigrant: I want to spend Christmas in a place where it is not cold.

He wants to spend it where there is a roof.

It's too cold right now.]



Tensions in the border area are also growing, with nearly 240,000 people caught illegally entering the country last month alone.



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Kim Byung-jik)