El Paso, Texas has launched a new migrant data dashboard to offer information about the massive number of migrants being encountered by the besieged border city.
For months, El Paso has been sounding the alarm about theit is facing. Images have shown migrants, including many from Venezuela, camped out on the streets as shelters and facilities have been overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, the city, which has a Democratic mayor, has been busing migrants to New York City and Chicago, although it has avoided the criticism that has been leveled at Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for doing the same.
Migrants who recently arrived from Venezuela, after crossing from Mexico, wait to be assigned a hotel room provided by the El Paso Office of Emergency Management on Sept. 21, 2022, in El Paso, Texas. "We have about 50 percent of the people today that do not have a sponsor, they do not have money, so we’re helping and working to get them to where they want to go," the mayor said.
According to the dashboard, it has bused nearly 13,000 migrants to the two self-described"sanctuary" cities. It has sent 2,925 to Chicago and 9,855 to the Big Apple so far this year.
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