EL PASO — U.S. Border Patrol agents are releasing a rising number of migrants onto the streets here to ease overcrowding at a processing center. Since Sept....
The Border Patrol’s El Paso sector covers El Paso and Hudspeth counties in West Texas and all of New Mexico. Migrant encounters through July surpassed 228,000, easily surpassing the 195,000 for all of 2021, Rivera said.
Once migrants are released, they generally await a court hearing to petition for asylum or to launch another defense to stay in the U.S., which could take months and sometimes years. He was released Thursday near a downtown bus station and hopes to make it to Houston, where he has heard there are plenty of jobs. “I can work in construction, [as a] painter, roofing or energy, which is what I most know about.”
“If you limited me to one word, the word is Venezuela,” said García from Annunciation House, one of the shelters that help migrants. The situation “it’s severe because El Paso has not experienced this,” pointing to Venezuelans who in most cases lack sponsors. “Churches must step up to the challenge,” he urged. “We can’t allow politicians to get involved and use migrants as pawns.”
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