EL PASO — Ramon Cordova and Lizette Hurtado faced great peril traveling from Nicaragua through Mexico to Texas. Their route, they said, was fraught with...
, includes the Security Response Force of the 606th Military Police Battalion, which is trained in civil disturbance operations and mass migration response.
A small group of migrants gathered near a downtown bus station. El Pasoans brought food, water, jackets and blankets. Migrants saidCesar Narvarez, 35, asked whether he could still get on a bus to Houston, where a friend awaited him. “Are we in limbo again?” he asked. “I understand this order affects those on the Mexican side of the border, not us who are already here on the U.S. side,” said Baltodano. She planned to spend the night at the airport, along with a group of other Nicaraguans gathered around a giant American flag and Christmas decorations.
At a news conference Monday, Leeser said city officials were told by the U.S. Border Patrol that 20,000 migrants are waiting across the border in Ciudad Juárez to come across, if and when Title 42 is lifted.
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