In one of the largest mass crossings ever in the region, more than 1,500 migrants waded across the Rio Grande from Juárez into El Paso Sunday night. Via elpasomatters:
Asylum-seeking migrants stand near the border wall after crossing the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents on Sunday., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The mass crossing came at a time when Border Patrol facilities and nongovernmental shelters in El Paso are stressed beyond capacity. Federal and local officials are bracing for continued growth in migrant crossings with the end of Title 42, a controversial policy begun during the Trump administration and expanded in the Biden administration to quickly expel many migrants on public health grounds. A federal judge has said the policy must end by Dec. 21, though the Biden administration is appealing the ruling.
Many migrants in this group were victims of a mass kidnapping in Durango on Dec. 3, when passengers on the Futura bus lines traveling toward the border were stopped by men in police uniforms. They were brought en masse to a house where they were held against their will. They continued on their way to Chihuahua, where state authorities initially told them that buses would take them to the border in Juárez, where they could cross to surrender themselves to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
When the shelters told the migrants they were free to go, hundreds of them made their way to the Rio Grande 2 miles away. State police escorted some of the groups from the shelters to the riverbank.
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