Good morning, Rusty!
The country sure is in the grips of a deep freeze.
I feel bad for all those who are trying to travel for the holidays.
Not sure when the judge will give his decision, soon I hope.
I am cautiously optimistic about his decision.
While her family hopes to settle and work in Atlanta to help relatives in crisis-stricken Venezuela, Nathaly said they don’t have enough money to purchase the bus tickets required to get there. She said they heard El Paso officials had started housing migrants at the city’s convention center, but that migrants like them, who had not been processed by U.S. border officials, were being rejected from the facility because of a local policy.
That concern was echoed by a group of young Venezuelan men who were also planning to sleep on a street near the bus station on Thursday night. They said they had gone to the convention center, but were denied entry because they also had evaded U.S. border officials and did not have government documents showing they had been released and allowed to seek asylum.
Since the U.S. started expelling Venezuelan migrants to Mexico under the Title 42 pandemic-era border restrictions, some Venezuelans have sought to evade border officials after entering the U.S. illegally, fearing that they could face expulsion.
Laura Cruz-Acosta, the lead spokesperson for the city of El Paso, confirmed to CBS News that local authorities have a policy of not sheltering migrants who were not processed by federal immigration officials, citing the need to comply with federal laws. Cruz-Acosta said the city was referring migrants who did not have U.S. government documents to local nonprofit organizations and federal immigration officials.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrants-young-children-frigid-temperatures-el-paso-texas-winter-storm/