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El Paso looks like a Third World country after Texas town is overrun by migrants
Shocking photos show President Biden’s border crisis has hit a new peak in El Paso, Texas — where a historic flood of migrants has turned the city into what a local pol says resembles “a third-world country.”
Regional Border Patrol Chief Gloria Chavez posted snapshots Monday night on Instagram that showed hordes of migrants dumped under an El Paso bridge over the weekend because the city has no more room to even process them.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said outraged US Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), whose district covers part of the city, as El Paso began grappling with its highest daily influx ever last month.
“It’s a scene that you would see in a third-world country, not in the streets of El Paso.”
Gonzalez warned, “Everything that I’ve been told and every indication tells me that we haven’t seen the worst yet.
“I was having regular conversations with the White House a few months ago, and now, we really aren’t having any conversations.
“Just when you think [things] can’t get any worse, they get worse. “
In a stunning revelation posted with the photos, Chavez wrote, “Since September 1st, El Paso Sector has averaged 1300 encounters per day.”
Most of the migrants flooding El Paso’s border are from Venezuela, and their numbers are averaging daily all-time highs, Border Patrol said. It wasn’t immediately clear what the city’s previous daily highs were.
The migrants, who cross into the US illegally and then claim they need asylum, are usually processed in a massive intake center that can handle 3,400 people.
But given the burgeoning figures, people are now being processed in a makeshift set-up under the local highway overpass.
The migrants are then either ditched on local streets, since there are no more government-funded hotel or shelter rooms available, or helped along to their final destination — which is usually New York City, El Paso officials told The Post on Tuesday.
“We ask the migrants where they wish to go. Nearly all of the migrants say New York City,” said El Paso spokeswoman Laura Cruz-Acosta. “To date, we have chartered 25 buses. All have been to New York City.”
The number of migrants bussed off since late August has totaled at least 1,135, the city said.
Chaser:
Flood of migrants helps lead to worst NYC shelter failure in more than a decade
Sixty men seeking shelter were out of luck Monday night when the city’s Department of Homeless Services failed to find them a place to stay, the first violation of the Big Apple’s court-ordered right-to-shelter rule for single adult males in 13 years, a rep for Legal Aid told The Post.
It also was the second time DHS failed to provide beds in recent weeks — as the city struggles to handle the nearly 10,000-and-counting migrants who have been arriving from the US southern border since the summer began.
About 7,300 of those migrants are currently in the city’s shelter system, Big Apple officials told The Post on Tuesday.
“That’s a significant number — that would have a significant impact on the shelter system,” former City Councilman Stephen Levin, the longtime former head of the council’s General Welfare Committee, noted of the tidal wave of migrants.
But now back to El Paso, and an earlier story from August 31st:
El Paso, Texas forced to bus migrants out of town amid migration
[The city] is getting flooded with 900 immigrants a day, according to officials, who said they’ve been forced to bus many of them out of town over an inability to handle the mass migration.
The crisis in El Paso came to a boiling point Tuesday night when city leaders were told by federal immigration officials that 500 asylum-seeking immigrants from Venezuela made up of women and children would be released into the streets unless the city could house them.
“This number was going to be above and beyond what our local [shelter] was prepared to take,” said Jorge Rodriguez of El Paso’s Office of Emergency Management.
To avoid having women and children sleeping on the streets, some of the families were put up in hotels or sent to El Paso’s homeless shelter, The Opportunity Center.
“I saw an infant as young as two or three months, and you should ask yourself, do you want that infant in the streets,” shelter director John Martin said.
About a third of those 500 immigrants were put on charter buses to New York City Thursday through Sunday where the non-profit Grannies Respond received them.
“These charters that we set up last week and that we helped facilitate to help a strained system, but in all actuality, these charters only accounted for 133 people,” said El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino.
Texas’s sixth largest city is seeing about 900 immigrants a day apprehended at the border, said D’Agostino. Last week alone, the city’s shelters took in 2,235 immigrants. This month, 8,400 immigrants moved through the border city on their way to their final destinations in the interior of the country.
So, the federal government, having abdicated its duty to protect our borders and enforce our immigration laws, is simply dumping criminals onto cities’ streets and denying all further responsibility. That may change as northern Democrat cities begin to have to shoulder some of the costs of their own open border advocacy.
Related: Arizona congressman calls Kampallawalla Ding Dong a” knucklehead” for claiming that our border is secure. Yuma, Arizona, is seeing 1,000 illegals coming across every day. Administration officials refuse to go anywhere near the southern border, for some strange reason.
