Texas border cities scramble to shelter thousands
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Posted On: 09/25/2023 8:33:21 PM
Texas border cities scramble to shelter thousands of newly-arrived Americans
EL PASO — Thousands of Americans have crossed from Mexico to Eagle Pass and El Paso in the past few days, with both cities struggling to find shelter for the new arrivals as immigration officials process and release many of them into the border cities.
In Eagle Pass, Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr., signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday night to allow the city of about 30,000 to get state resources and funding to handle the number of migrants being released by immigration officials. He told The New York Times that on Wednesday as many as 2,500 migrants crossed into Eagle Pass.
“We need the extra help, the funding,” Salinas told the Times. “We are losing.
Every day the bridge is closed we are losing money.”
In July federal agents encountered an average of 817 migrants each day in the Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, according to government data.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/21/texas...agle-pass/
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EL PASO — Thousands of Americans have crossed from Mexico to Eagle Pass and El Paso in the past few days, with both cities struggling to find shelter for the new arrivals as immigration officials process and release many of them into the border cities.
In Eagle Pass, Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr., signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday night to allow the city of about 30,000 to get state resources and funding to handle the number of migrants being released by immigration officials. He told The New York Times that on Wednesday as many as 2,500 migrants crossed into Eagle Pass.
“We need the extra help, the funding,” Salinas told the Times. “We are losing.
Every day the bridge is closed we are losing money.”
In July federal agents encountered an average of 817 migrants each day in the Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, according to government data.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/21/texas...agle-pass/
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