The rise of migrants going across the United States border from Mexico has actually pressed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with greater than 2,000 individuals daily looking for asylum, going beyond sanctuary capability as well as stressing sources, its mayor stated Saturday.

“The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come to … a breaking point right now,” Mayor Oscar Leeser stated.

The crush of mostly Venezuelan asylum hunters belongs to a bigger swell of immigrants that took a trip unsafe paths on buses as well as freight trains to Mexican border communities near San Diego, California, as well as the Texas cities of El Paso as well as Eagle Pass.

Migrant numbers had actually dropped in current months, as well as the current significant boost has actually created a new age of political assaults on U.S. President Joe Biden heading right into the 2024 political election.

Lesser informed a press conference that El Paso intends to open up a brand-new sanctuary, as well as on Saturday legal 5 buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago as well as Denver.

Republican guvs in Texas as well as Florida have actually been slammed for sending out migrants to cities viewed as liberal such as New York as well as Sacramento. But Leeser, a Democrat, stated every one of the migrants on the El Paso buses were going willingly to the cities of their selection.

Leeser stated the Biden had actually been a great companion. But he stated the general U.S. migration system was damaged.

Many migrants from Venezuela, he stated, did not have transport to their wanted locations, while El Paso’s existing sanctuary homes just 400 individuals, as well as need to additionally be readily available to aid the homeless.

As lately as 6 weeks earlier, concerning 350-400 individuals were going across right into El Paso daily, however the previous couple of days have actually brought 2,000 or even more.

Over the previous 10 days, the city has actually dealt with the U.S. Border Patrol to offer sanctuary for 6,500 individuals, he stated.

About two-thirds of those going across right into El Paso presently are solitary males, he stated. About 32% are family members as well as simply 2% are unaccompanied kids.

“I think it’s really important to note that we have a broken immigration system,” he stated. “It’s the same thing over and over again.”

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