El Paso among border cities seeing migrants dumped onto streets: ‘We will run out of capacity’By MaryAnn Martinez
Published Sep. 17, 2023
A growing number of border communities are sounding the alarm on the border crisis, as migrants are being dumped onto their streets by Border Patrol, which has maxed out its ability to house recent arrivals.
Leaders in El Paso, Texas, warned they would not be able to keep mass groups of migrants from sleeping on the streets — what the city considers worst-case scenario — for much longer.
On Thursday alone, some 1,700 migrants entered the US through El Paso in a 24-hour period.
In previous weeks, the city had seen less than 1,000 migrants a day.
“We’re not going to have street releases,” said the city’s Mayor Oscar Leeser during a Friday morning news conference.
“Our No. 1 priority is the safety of our community and the safety of our asylum seekers. We don’t want them sleeping on the streets, but at some point, we will run out of capacity.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/09/17/el-paso-other-cities-near-capacity-with-influx-of-migrants-on-streets/
