Officials have been trying to get migrants to other cities with more shelter capacity and resources to feed the asylum-seekers as they try to arrange travel to final destinations where family and friends are.
EL PASO, Texas — The nation began readying for an arctic storm that could plunge temperatures around the country, but on the southern border many migrants say they didn't know they were in for colder, nastier weather.
In the midst of the weather warnings, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said the city was trying to open up shelters in vacant schools and the convention center in the next couple of days. Moisés Vásquez is among the migrants who has been sleeping on a sidewalk near the bus station. Originally from Cuba, he left his country in 2018 and ended up in Uruguay, where he worked three and a half years to earn enough money to come to the U.S. He left Uruguay June 2 and walked to the border.
Texas' power grid failed in a freeze in 2021, killing more than 200 who were left without power. In a news conference Wednesday, Gov. Abbott reassured the state that the power grid would stay online this time. Migrants allowed into the U.S. are processed by Border Patrol and many are expelled. But thousands of others are allowed in to seek asylum, particularly those from countries that won’t take them back.
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