Border Crisis: El Paso Struggles with Overwhelmed Shelters and Migrant Street Releases
El Paso is experiencing a surge in migrant arrivals, with local shelters operating over capacity and US Customs and Border Protection increasing street releases. The nonprofit Opportunity Center for the Homeless has been over capacity for three weeks, prompting the El Paso Office of Emergency Management to provide shelter in hotels. The lack of resources to reach their destinations is causing migrants to stay longer in El Paso. The region is seeing an average of 1,200 encounters per day at the border, with over 1,100 people being released to the community daily. Southern California, particularly San Diego County, is also facing an influx of migrants, with aid groups working to provide additional resources.
- El Paso is on the ‘cusp of a third wave’ of migrant arrivals and local shelters are over capacity, nonprofit official says CNN
- 500 migrants illegally enter U.S. through El Paso KVIA
- Pima County faces possible "unsheltered" migrant street releases alongside other counties KGUN 9 Tucson News
- El Paso County grapples with migrant surge, balancing public services and local concerns KFOX El Paso
- El Paso among border cities seeing migrants dumped onto streets: 'We will run out of capacity' New York Post
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