A top official in El Paso, Texas, has called the situation at the southern border “frightening” and said the local community is not accustomed to having so many illegal aliens in the city.
El Paso City Council member Claudia Rodriguez made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Dec. 28, shortly after the Supreme Court voted to allow the Title 42 immigration policy to remain in place.
Rodriguez took aim at the Biden administration’s open border policies amid an influx of illegal aliens and noted the current solutions put in place by the federal government to manage the crisis are simply not sustainable.
“It’s frightening what’s happening in El Paso, not only for the community, because we’re not used to this,” Rodriguez said. “Even though we are a border city, we’re not used to this type of environment where we just see people running across our freeways and running into our backyards. It’s very scary. People are sleeping on our streets. It’s completely out of the normal and, again, there is no plan moving forward.”
“The fact that we have a tent city that’s being built in El Paso, a shelter—a huge shelter—to house all these migrants, is that going be the solution moving forward? Are we going to be funding shelters? … What comes after that?” Rodriguez said.
Giant Tent for Illegal Aliens
U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Landon Hutchens confirmed in a statement to CNN that a soft-sided tent facility is being erected in El Paso to accommodate the growing number of illegal aliens.
According to Hutchens, the facility “will be used by U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector to provide additional migrant processing capabilities, with a capacity to hold approximately 1,000 migrants while they are processed in accordance with U.S. immigration law.”
The spokesperson added that the tent facility, part of the Biden administration’s response to the influx of illegal immigrants, will likely be up and running starting in January.
El Paso has a population of roughly 670,000 people.
Fox News predicts that once Title 42 is lifted, there could be up to 14,000 illegal aliens crossing the southern border every day, amounting to roughly 5.1 million every year.
Rodriguez noted that the city is currently overwhelmed with illegal aliens sleeping on the streets or being housed in hotels and churches, while border officials are working hard to try and push migrants to ports of entry along the border, as opposed to crossing illegally.
Thousands of Illegal Aliens Waiting at Border
“That is why now I’m calling on President Biden to come to El Paso and look at our city and tell us what the solution moving forward is, because this right here is unsustainable,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t see this really going anywhere other than more shelter, more shelter, more shelter, but really it’s not securing our border.”
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser warned on Dec. 20 that roughly 20,000 migrants have piled up at the southern border and are waiting for Title 42 to end so that they can attempt to enter the city. More have arrived since then despite freezing temperatures.
Others have already crossed the border and have been released into the city.
For now, Title 42—which was implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic—remains in limbo after being allowed to remain in effect while legal disputes play out.
The Biden administration has said it will comply with the order while it prepares for the Supreme Court’s review.
In a statement on Dec. 27, the White House said that it is also “advancing preparations to manage the border in a secure, orderly, and humane way when Title 42 eventually lifts and will continue expanding legal pathways for immigration,” despite border resources currently being stretched.
This treasonous, hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY and is intent on destroying the U.S.A. and turning our country into a 3rd world Socialist Democrat Party Dictatorship. We all will be servants to the Socialist Democrat Party Dictatorship.
They have refused to enforce our citizen passed laws which protect our borders and security. They have forbidden state governments, from protecting their state PEOPLE, property and state borders from illegal invasions which they themselves have created to facilitate their preplanned social chaos and conquest of American citizen liberties. They have destroyed and subjugated the remedial legislative due process with delays and obfuscation via their massive volumes of written laws designed with the sole purpose of fatiguing the people into compliance of their absurdities. They have corrupted the rule of law of the creator and nature, by imposing class warfare on our families, our sexual orientation by edifying the rights of LGBTQ homosexuals over the rights of men resulting in the destruction of workable traditional marriage, resulting in the aborting of life and fathers for our children. They have corrupted enforcement of our borders exposing of our states to all sorts of dangers of open invasion from without and political convulsions within. They have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing assent to Laws established, by corrupting Judiciary powers with judicial nullification and oppressive selective judicial fiat. They excited domestic insurrections amongst us by bringing in foreign inhabitants, ignoring the depredations of the merciless drug dealers, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
and where is the gop?
Kissing the butts of the dems! That’s where.
Instead of creating funding ability to CONTROL the border, all the Biden administration is doing is funding in billions the ability to pamper the law-breakers, making for just more breaking of the laws not only more appealing to foreign invaders of criminal lawbreaking mindsets, but is making the lawbreaking more facile and enabled and expanded in border control destruction. We Have Buttigieg controlling our failing air transportation industry and policing,,,, Kamala our uncontrolled border, and the age of Chucklehead leadership is now upon us to the point where failure is now accepted as our only national option. Just how much pain can THE PEOPLE endure before outright rebellion breaks out? You think it cannot get worse under Biden,,,,then it does, day by day. Everything they touch goes to hell in a handbasket of Democrat total incompetence. Failure, citizen defeat and overwhelmed society is obviously not only their social goals, but the safety zones they think will keep them in power, by making WE THE PEOPLE feel unsafe even within the walls and undefended property of our own homes, Thanks to the Democrat social experimenters, ours is no longer a national safe, sane society, but a jungle of American raped apes, run by a Democrat party unfit to govern a once great American people.
People will only really care when it’s in their backyard. IMO
MAYBE if that woman home owner, who’s video showed these illegals trying to break in, HAD SHOT ONE, they’d stop!
It’s already in their backyard and many people are still apathetic about the situation and it’s doubtful they ever will care.
That’s the unfortunate truth.. TOO MANY have just become too damn apathetic..
Where is the GOP? Still waiting to grow a spine from the looks of it. Not all but far too many of our elected officials in BOTH political parties were more than willing to sell their soul and their country for money, power and/or votes. Most are re-elected which speaks volumes.
I fear our sun will be NO MORE< before the GOP ever grows a bloody spine…
Rodriguez took aim at the Biden administration’s open border policies
The Republican Party is just as complicit. They along with their radical left allies are destroying our country.
The sorry part of this is that if a USA Citizen were to take action against these FOREIGN INVADERS, they probably would be demeaned and punished in some way. WHAT the HELL happened to our country? What happened to our patriots? What happened to LAW & Order?
The left KILLED law and order.. Unfortunately that’s what.
My dad’s words which are very true: money talks; make you shut up.
Anyone who encounters migrants on their property needs to urgently direct them to Veronica Escobar’s house. Just tell them that Veronica is a high level government official who can provide them everything they want.
Isn’t texas a “stand your ground”/Castle doctrine state??
START USING IT!
Trespassing is illegal, unless you are an illegal alien. Flying on a plane without proper ID is impossible, unless you are an illegal alien. Some Americans find it difficult to receive government assistance, not illegal aliens. Not showing up for a court date will get arrested, unless you are an illegal alien. See a pattern here. What’ the downside to sneaking into the U.S.
There is no down side.
AND as i keep saying, What benefit is there, these days, to BECOMING A US Citizen???
You want to be careful about scaring Texans. Very careful.
What i wanna know is, WHY ARE MORE out there, NOT USING their 2a rights, to defend THEIR OWN PROPERTY against this invasion!?