Homeless shelters in Texas border city are currently at their “breaking point” after President Joe Biden’s administration released hundreds of illegal migrants onto the “streets.”
Local officials are complaining after hundreds of immigrants couldn’t be catered to as the administration continues to allow illegal immigrants to flood the city, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
In a statement released by Deputy Director for the Opportunity Center for the Homeless, a local nonprofit shelter in El Paso, Texas, John Martin during an interview with the News foundation, he revealed that “we just simply got to a breaking point that we couldn’t take another person. We were just inundated with people. And to put this sort of perspective for you, our particular shelter has a capacity of about 85 people. We have gone a few nights now where we’ve been over 110.”
On August 1, the Opportunity Center, a shelter for the homeless currently housing illegal migrants, launched and opened their new temporary facility to handle the influx.
However, only a month after the opening, reports revealed that the facility is currently at capacity with “migrants having to stay in hallways, meeting rooms and wherever the facility “can squeeze them in,” Martin said.
The deputy director also claimed that the situation is no different for other shelters in the area.
On September 7, “the Border Patrol released 133 illegal migrants and 350 on Sept. 8 near shelters and bus stations in El Paso, El Paso border sector,” spokesperson Landon Hutchens said in a statement.
According to the report, the majority of the illegal migrants found in Martin’s shelter came from Venezuela.
“U.S. Border Patrol in the El Paso Sector has recorded a significant increase in migrant encounters compared to previous fiscal years. Since the beginning of the month of September, the El Paso Sector has seen an additional increase to an average of more than 1,100 daily migrant encounters,” Hutchens added.
Martin claimed that the Opportunity Center stepped in after the Border Patrol processing center complained about being “over capacity,” which leads to the release of illegal migrants “to the streets.”
“The El Paso Sector Border Patrol works closely with ICE Enforcement of Removal Office for detention space and with local government officials and Non-Government Organizations to decompress the high capacity of migrants in holding at the El Paso Sector’s Central Processing Center. Once those options are exhausted, provisional releases into the community are considered,” Hutchens continued.
