Amid a spike in migrant encounters at the southern border, the City of El Paso, Texas, launched a migrant dashboard to follow activity at its welcome center.
The city has served more than 14,900 migrants since early September and bused thousands to cities further north. More than 8,000 migrants have been transported from El Paso to New York and about 2,300 to Chicago since August 23, when the busing program began, according to the dashboard. The migrants are offered the city-funded journeys after being processed and released by the Border Patrol.
New York City now has more than 61,000 people in its shelter system, including thousands experiencing homelessness and thousands of asylum-seekers who have been bused in over recent months from other parts of the country, according to the mayor. D’Agostino previously told CNN the unprecedented surge in migration has been testing El Paso’s infrastructure. Each day, border officials encounter an average of 1,500 migrants in the El Paso region, according to the city’s website.
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