Arrival of largely Venezuelan asylum seekers is part of a larger swell of immigrants who traveled dangerous routes to Mexican border towns near San Diego, California, and Texas cities of El Paso and Eagle Pass.
With 2.2 million refugees intercepted at its southern border — 1.8 million of them at relatively remote places like this crossing — the United States will end its fiscal year on September 30 in record territory.
The dramatic increase in migrants has pushed the city of El Paso to"a breaking point," with more than 2,000 people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said on Saturday. Lesser said El Paso plans to open a new shelter, and on Saturday chartered five buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago and Denver.With tensions rising in the conservative border state of Texas, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was to meet Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Saturday in the Texas city of McAllen for talks on migration.
But for refugees who have sometimes walked thousands of kilometres on foot, and many of whom passed through the treacherous Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama, determination has been their guide.
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