El Paso migrant center overwhelmed

 Guardian:

Chairs and tables lined El Paso’s new Migrant Welcome Center in west Texas, where families who have crossed the US-Mexico border without immigration papers were meeting with volunteers and city employees, or making phone calls to loved ones elsewhere in the United States.

Children amused themselves in a designated play area, while their parents worked out where the next steps of their journey would take them and how they would get there.

Services on offer at the city-funded facility included food, water and basic healthcare, assistance with communication and travel arrangements – though not beds.

A 40-year beacon of refuge shuttered in the city earlier this year. The local non-profit Annunciation House, which works to help migrants arriving in the area, announced that it would be closing its largest shelter, Casa del Refugiado, due to maintenance issues and a lack of volunteers.

It had the capacity to house up to 1,500 migrants and had weathered years of turmoil in immigration policies, helping migrants in dire straits as they were put into federal detention or ended up on the streets.

Without that, the city’s new facility, which opened last month, has to find other shelters for those without alternative housing to go to, which are already bursting at the seams, or get them on their way to another city as fast as possible – including via controversial bussing practices.

The center can help up to 300 migrants at any given time. No one is housed there overnight so it cannot replace Casa del Refugiado, but is nevertheless a stark change from the chaos of a few weeks ago when city authorities set about breaking up what they called public camping, as migrants slept on the streets of downtown.

Customs and Border Protection in El Paso has been stretched by recent increases in border crossings and apprehensions and at one point in September almost 1,000 migrants were released to the streets of El Paso in a six-day period.

Bewildered, hundreds set up camp outside the local Greyhound bus station, some in donated tents, despite stormy weather and a lack of bathrooms and washing facilities, and the makeshift camp became squalid.

When local media questioned the city on their response, information was not forthcoming and instead a statement was emailed, which said: “Staff is focused on the work regarding the migrants and is unable to conduct interviews at this time” and that the city was working on assistance and cleanup.
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It is not the city's or state's responsibility to deal with migrants.  That is a federal responsibility and Biden deserved to be impeached for his failure to control the border and immigration.   The whining by Democrats in cities where the migrants have been shipped is misplaced.  What they should be doing is insisting that Biden do his job and protect the border and deal with the migrants.  It appears to be Democrat policy to ignore immigration laws and a duty to protect the border from invasion.

Voters in this country need to respond to this dereliction of duty by voting against every Democrat on the ballot.  To control the border Democrats who have failed to do so must be defeated.