Posted on 12/13/2022 8:00:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
Some 500 migrants were released into the streets of El Paso, Texas, to fend for themselves Monday as the border city grappled with an overwhelming influx of asylum seekers who have besieged the city and overwhelmed its shelters and border detention facilities.
Migrants with nowhere to go were seen lying on mattresses and cardboard boxes in the city’s downtown district after having their claims processed and being let into the country by Border Patrol agents, according to KTSM-TV.
The situation, which a local congressman dubbed a “crisis on steroids,” came as some 5,628 asylum seekers were held in temporary US Customs and Border Protection custody in a facility designed for 3,500 after Mexican authorities escorted busloads of people fleeing failing governments in Nicaragua, Peru and Ecuador to the US border this weekend.
Agents have been overwhelemed, with around 2,400 migrants handing themselves in at the border each of the last three days — more than 7,000 in total.
As no shelter space was available, authorities had no choice but to release 498 of them onto the streets, where temperatures fell to around freezing..
And El Paso officials have been warned it is a taste of things to come — as they previously said they have been told to brace themselves for migrant numbers to surge by 40% beginning on Dec. 21, when the pandemic-era Title 42 is set to expire.
The court order has been enforced to eject migrants from Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador from the country. When it expires, those migrants will again be eligible for asylum in the US if they meet the criteria.
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I have a better idea, send them all back into Mexico.
Prepare Operation Wetback 2.
I know, it’s not happening...
Gets cold in EP this time of year, can even get snow.
Biden’s nuts should be used as door knockers on the WH.
BRRR!
and 27* at night.
that’s mighty chilly for sleeping outdoors on the ground without a very warm sleeping bag.
Thanks for the link.
They can always go back to sunny Mexico.
We need bigger busses!
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It’s best to send them back to Juarez.
What have you got against Canada?
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