Posted on 11/10/2025 11:56:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, the immigration debate has spilled into the streets, sparking almost daily demonstrations while immigration agents ramp up arrests.
But in El Paso - a city in Texas on the US-Mexico border - the streets are unusually quiet.
A year after the BBC last visited the border to understand the impact of the migrant crisis on the border, sites that were once teeming with migrants lie largely silent.
Just a few years ago, as many as 2,500 migrants once camped outside the city's historic Sacred Heart Catholic church. Many lined the streets sleeping on donated blankets, idling while they waited for food and water to be distributed by local charities.
Now, only a handful of parishioners can be seen coming in and out of the church.
The same is true of a nearby park and of shelters throughout the city, where migrants once huddled to exchange their experiences of trudging through jungles and deserts or being detained, robbed or nearly kidnapped on their long journeys through Latin America to the border.
The influx prompted El Paso's government to declare a state of emergency in late 2022 as local shelters ballooned beyond capacity.
Then, when US President Donald Trump came into office in January - elected in part because of his promise to fix the border - the regular flow of migrants into El Paso slowed to a trickle.
It is a trend that has repeated itself along the length of the 1,900-mile (3,145km) border, from the Pacific Coast in California toTexas' Gulf coast.
Figures for detentions of border crossers are at a 50-year low.
In September alone - the last month for which complete data is available - 11,647 people were detained along the entirety of the US-Mexico border, compared with 101,000 in September 2024...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
BBC trying to be nice to Trump?
Looking at a billion dollar lawsuit? Sucking up is worth a try!
There is a Texas county/precinct on the border of Mexico with 95% Hispanic. This county had not voted for a Republican in over one hundred years. In 2024, they voted for President Trump.
How about we send our illegals to the UK. Great hotels, beach vacations and free medical from the NIH plus! the BBC can write paeans to the newcomers.
Too late for that crap.
Here come da' judge.
Hmm sounds familiar... “Out in the West Texas town of El Paso”...
A lot of Americans of Hispanic descent really resent the illegals.
This proves it could have been done before by simply enforcing the law.
Trumps gonna slice and dice the Britts.
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