Overwhelmed Texas city declares state of emergency as over 11K migrants — close to half its population– surge across border
By MaryAnn Martinez and
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published Sep. 20, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET
An unprecedented surge of 4,000 migrants streamed across the US border with Mexico in to Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday — forcing the overwhelmed city to declare an emergency.
Border patrol sources said they join approximately 7,500 other migrants who have handed themselves in over the last week.
The surge is the largest since 15,000 Haitian immigrants camped out under the bridge in neighboring Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021, officials said. That incident resulted in a major humanitarian crisis.
City Mayor Rolando Salinas said the mob, many of them from Venezuela, has overrun the Mission Border Hope shelter in the city, where asylum seekers are processed.
“One of the situations is that a lot of these [migrants], they’re single males and they don’t want to listen to instructions and they’re leaving the facility,” the mayor said.
“Not all of these people come in peace.”
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