El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D'Agostino pleads for federal assistance amid the wave of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border as the end of Title 42 nears.
"There has to be some policy changes, some kind of different direction on how we approach this because we’re worried about the same concerns, about the smuggling of people, drugs and we’re concerned about the people freezing in the streets…," D'Agostino told host Martha MacCallum."It’s all of that…that we've tried to prepare and we know that we need assistance."
A Customs and Border Protection bus drops off dozens of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, at the City of El Paso's migrant welcome center Sept. 22, 2022.The city has never dealt with such a large influx of migrants before, according to D’Agostino, who fears migrant crossings with surge further once Title 42, a health protocol that enables the government to quickly expel migrants, expires on Dec. 21. "This didn’t just happen overnight. We’ve been seeing the numbers increase.
D'Agostino said the city has requested advanced federal funding, but worries it may take too long before financial assistance comes through. "We've gotten communications that there’s some possibly coming. We don’t have the time frame yet. But we’re hoping that comes in soon," he said."We’re working with our state resources and actually asking for some state assistance in the form of law enforcement and the form of staffing and in the form of transportation.", when Customs and Border Protection agents apprehended around 1,700 migrants each day in the El Paso sector.
El Paso has already spent $9.5 million assisting migrants this year, The Texas Tribune reported. The federal government has reimbursed $2.2 million so far and is expected to provide another $4.6 million.
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