May 8, 2023 1:08pm EDT
El Paso mayor warns that ‘unknown’ number of illegal immigrants will cross border as Trump policy ends: report
'There is no light at the end of the tunnel,' El Paso mayor Oscar Leeser warned as illegal immigrants prepare to cross into the U.S.
By Jeffrey Clark | Fox News
The mayor of El Paso, Texas, a border town, is warning that there is "no light at the end of the tunnel" as illegal immigrants prepare to cross into the U.S. just days before a Trump-era border policy ends on Thursday.
"We are getting prepared now for the unknown. The unknown is how many people will come here," El Paso mayor Oscar Leeser told reporters this month, according to The New York Times.
"Federal immigration laws are broken, and they didn’t break during this administration or the last administration," Leeser said. "We have to figure out where we are heading. There is no light at the end of the tunnel."
Leeser was speaking out as Title 42, a Trump-era pandemic policy that has been used to expel hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from different countries back to Mexico, is scheduled to end on May 11 at 11:59 pm.
Leeser’s home of El Paso has been especially devastated by the flood of immigrants that have crossed the border, with The New York Times describing the scene as "a tableau of human misery fanned out for several blocks, with destitute migrants occupying every spit of sidewalk" in front of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Three cities in Texas have declared a state of emergency, including El Paso, Brownsville and Laredo.
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