Migrant Shelters in El Paso, TX, Already Stretched to the Limit Before Expiration of Title 42

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Remember when a couple-dozen migrants almost shut down Martha’s Vineyard and the National Guard was called in? Imagine if the streets of Edgartown were so crowded with migrants that traffic was shut down. Now you’re getting an idea of what the scene in El Paso, Texas, is like.

Title 42 hasn’t even expired yet, and the city is completely overwhelmed.

Julio Rosas reports at Townhall:

El Paso’s Migrant Shelters Brace for the Worst Once Title 42 Is Gone“There’s alway been migrants here, just never at this volume,” Nicole Reulet, Rescue Mission of El Paso’s (RMEP) marketing director, told me as we walked across the street from the organization’s main building to the lot they recently acquired after the surge of illegal crossings that hit the city late last year.Reulet recalled when there was a spike in illegal crossings last December, they had to put people in their main building wherever there was space, including conference rooms and the kitchen…”For us, it’s just been, where are we going to put these people? For us, we have the capacity of about 225. We haven’t reached that capacity just yet but I’m sure by the end of the week we’ll be there. But that’s 225 when thousands are released a day, so it’s just a drop in the bucket,” Reulet explained. “So our biggest concern is just making that sure there’s no kids on the street.”

The images are just stunning.

The Daily Mail has more:

ICE officers scour the streets of El Paso to ratchet up pressure on hundreds of migrants to register or face detention as the city braces for the end of Title 42 and a surge in border crossersEl Paso’s shelters are already full. Two vacant schools are being readied for an expected surge when Title 42 — a Trump-era pandemic restriction that meant most migrants were sent straight back without even being allowed to apply for asylum —expires at midnight on Thursday night.And a new Customs and Border Patrol processing center is being built just out of town. Its 150,000 square feet of warehouse-like building it can handle about 1000 people.Federal officials say they are preparing for the number of migrants reaching the border to more than double, from about 6000 a day to 13,000.Hundreds of migrants have already made their way right up to the border wall in Ciudad Juarez, a stone’s throw from El Paso. Tens of thousands more are reported to be ready and waiting for Friday.For now, those that have already made the crossing are camped around the Sacred Heart Church. They stretch blankets between railings and garbage cans to provide shelter from the scorching sun.Flattened cardboard boxes serve as beds.

This is already a crisis, but it can potentially become a disaster.

Featured image via YouTube.

Tags: Biden Immigration, Border Crisis, Immigration, Texas

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