D.C. bus migrant on how he has been treated in U.S.: 'Perfecto'

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who was dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington DC residence on Thursday said he had been treated well since arriving in the United States – better than other countries, even.

Wilder Alberto Pinto Sosa and his son traveled across eight countries from Venezuela to get to the United States. He told a reporter for DC News Now that he is the first of his family to make it to the U.S. and was grateful at the chance at a better life for his son.

When asked about how he been treated here, Sosa replied “perfecto.”

He added that he’s been treated with dignity and respect since getting to the U.S., “much better any other country I’ve passed through.”

Two buses with about 75 to 100 migrants from Texas arrived at the U.S. Naval Observatory, where the vice president resides, on Thursday morning.

One bus passenger told Fox News he was from Venezuela and crossed the U.S. border illegally to escape the violence and crime in his country.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Pete Ducey began sending migrants who arrived at the U.S. southern border to Washington D.C.’s Union Station in April after the Biden administration’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers.

The governors have since sent buses to New York City, Chicago and other Democrat-led cities as well.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency on Sep. 8 over the huge influx of migrants in her city. The Texas and Arizona governors offices said at the time that about 9,400 people had been bused to the Nation’s capital since they began.

Bowser had twice requested to activate the DC National Guard to assist with the migrant crisis, both of which were rejected by the Pentagon.

"The DCNG has no specific experience in or training for this kind of mission or unique skills for providing facility management, feeding, sanitation or ground support," Defense Department executive secretary Kelly Bulliner Holly wrote in the most recent rejection in late August.