Immigrants who journeyed thousands of miles and crossed the border illegally with the expectation they would be welcomed into the US with open arms instead discovered a very different reality upon walking onto the streets of El Paso.
Throughout central downtown, immigrants have set up tentlike structures on the sidewalks. Garbage and feces filled alleyways and lined the streets and have turned a very small section of the town of 800,000 residents into a filthy area.
“They will feed you, clothe you, help you with your studies, and get a job,” one Venezuelan man said. Border Patrol agents descended on the church early Tuesday morning and handed out flyers instructing immigrants to turn themselves in at a Border Patrol station, including the Paso Del Norte Station three blocks from the church. The border wall is just a hundred feet away, acting as a backdrop for this Border Patrol station. Over a hundred immigrants were standing in line, ready and willing to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The line was full of mostly young men in their 20s.
One man said he escaped Venezuela because there is no money and it is dangerous. Many have left family and friends in their country and sought work in the U.S. to send money home. One told the Washington Examiner his mother encouraged him to make the trip to the U.S. for a better life.
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