A municipal official in El Paso, Texas, warns that migration into the city cannot be a “free-for-all” and calls for policy changes in Washington while noting that a last-minute suspension of the Biden administration’s parole policy may have prevented a larger influx.
El Paso officials and local nonprofits are approaching a breaking point in the huge border city as federal immigration authorities release thousands of migrants. Approximately 1,700 migrants were released from U.S. Border Patrol facilities on Wednesday, according to statistics from the City of El Paso.
El Paso, Texas, is plagued by 1,500 illegal migrants daily. Border Patrol agents along just one sector of the southern border are encountering approximately 1,500 illegal migrants each day, despite ongoing controversies over transporting a fraction of those numbers to more liberal areas in the United States.