Because an influx of Central American families is overwhelming the nation’s immigration infrastructure, U.S. officials are looking to facilities across the country.
Breaking point: Five hours of the migrant crush in Texas View Graphic Breaking point: Five hours of the migrant crush in Texas The ongoing, record-high influx of migrant families crossing into the United States along its southern border has strained U.S. Border Patrol resources so far beyond capacity that, for the first time, the Trump administration’s border crisis is spilling out into America’s interior.
CBP officials said they are looking “across the entire nation” for space to house and process migrants before releasing them to await immigration court hearings. A senior Department of Homeland Security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said numerous destinations with government facilities that have the capacity to process migrants are under consideration.
“Our processing cannot keep up with the flow that’s coming across, nor can our facilities,” the CBP official said Friday. The discussion about transferring thousands of newly detained migrants to cities hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande Valley already is fueling new tensions between the federal government and some local jurisdictions that want nothing to do with the administration’s border crisis.
Undocumented migrants wait to be processed after crossing the Texas border on Wednesday. Local authorities in Broward and Palm Beach counties said CBP informed them that it was weighing plans to transfer more than 1,000 people a month from the El Paso area of Texas, 1,800 miles away. Most of the families arriving at the southwest border originated in the impoverished and violence-ridden countries of Central America. They often emerge from government holding cells in Texas and Arizona needing food, shelter and medical services — which they often receive from charities and nonprofits that are stationed there.
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