‘Crisis’: El Paso Asks Biden Admin To Use Military Bases To House Illegal Immigrants Amid Massive Surge
JENNIE TAER
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
December 13, 2022
9:07 PM ET
Officials with the city of El Paso, Texas, are asking the Biden administration to use military bases to house illegal immigrants to relieve a strain on local resources as they prepare for the end of the public health expulsion order Title 42 on Dec. 21, El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday.
D’Agostino suggested that the military house the illegal immigrants on bases like Ft. Bliss as it previously did with Afghan refugees after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeing nearly 2,500 illegal migrants crossing each day into El Paso and the surge is overwhelming the city’s ability to support those who crossed illegally, forcing many to sleep on the streets. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Is Underreporting Illegals It Releases Into The Country Without Tracking Equipment By Over 18,000%)
“What we have been saying to all of our federal partners is that this Title 42 going away, with the numbers we’re seeing today is a true emergency for the community. It’s a federal crisis that’s happening in the border of El Paso. With that, they’re gonna need to do some federal operation, maybe like what we saw with the Afghans,” D’Agostino told the DCNF.
The city accommodated CBP’s release of about 250 illegal migrants per day from custody in August.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/13/southern-border-joe-biden-illegal-immigration-el-paso-texas/
