Eric Mena covered his sleeping toddler daughter Sofia with a blanket as he sat on a park bench, prepared to wait as long as it took for free passage to New York City.
Mena, 28, said he arrived here three days ago at the epicenter of the southern border crisis, where Oscar Leeser, the city’s mayorlast week as thousands of migrants filed into El Paso from across the border.
“I carried my little girl on my shoulders as we crossed the Rio Grande,” Mena said, adding that the family — his wife Nicole and son Jadiel, 7 — crossed into the US earlier this week in the early hours of the morning and gave themselves up to US Customs and Border Protection agents on the US side.Leeser, a Democrat whose city has been overwhelmed with migrants from South and Central America throughout 2022,this fall, but stopped the program after the city ran out of money.
Buses run by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have been sent to El Paso to ship migrants to destinations outside of Texas.Nellie Burgos, 52, who also arrived in El Paso from Ecuador a few days ago, said a Catholic charity had told her buses to New York City and Chicago were free, and she would have to obtain financing from family or a charity for other destinations in the US.
Mena, a shoemaker, said that he was told by other migrants the city was offering free bus rides to New York City and Chicago. on the termination of the policy following an emergency appeal Monday by a group of Republican-led states.
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