EL PASO, Texas – In the coming days, city and county leaders of this border region are preparing for a greater influx of migrants that could top 5,000 per day. ...
. The money is in addition to $2 million in advance funding already received.
In a press conference Thursday, Mayor Oscar Leeser said El Paso does not plan to declare an emergency disaster. He said the city is preparing by offering outside toilets, and water stations – and doing everything to keep people “off the streets” as temperatures fall below freezing. “This funding and shelter is not the answer, it’s a Band-Aid to really a bigger problem,” said Leeser. “It’s something we’re going to have to work with the [United Nations] and other countries, to work through a situation ... that again is bigger than El Paso and that now has become bigger than the United States.”
“Our airport has a limited number of available flights on a daily basis,” D’Agostino said. “We have a couple of bus transportation companies. They also have limited seating. So when you start looking at these high numbers that Title 42 might bring us when it is taken away, that will add to these numbers.”
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