Officials in El Paso, Texas, discontinued this week the practice of transporting migrants to New York City and Chicago by bus, citing a new Biden administration policy designed to deter Venezuelan migrants from crossing the southern border illegally.
designed to deter Venezuelan migrants from crossing the southern border illegally, a city spokesperson told CBS News.
Due to the policies unveiled last week and the subsequent decrease in migrant arrivals to El Paso, Cruz-Acosta added, Customs and Border Protection "discontinued sending migrants to the City this week." Beyond halting its busing effort, El Paso on Thursday closed a reception center it had opened to accommodate migrant families released by federal border officials and allowed to seek U.S. asylum.
"Everyone worked together within their scope toward the same goals: decompression efforts, policies to lower the number of asylum seekers reaching our border and treating every individual as each one of us would like to be treated, with dignity and respect," Leeser said.
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