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El Paso, Texas ‘at a breaking point’ as migrant numbers skyrocket: mayor
Breitbart ^ | 09/24/2023 | Reuters

Posted on 09/24/2023 10:42:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said on Saturday.

“The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come to … a breaking point right now,” Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a news conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; elpaso; illegals; invasion; mayor; migrant; migrantcrisis; migrantsurge; skyrocket; texas
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El Paso is extremely democrats correct??
1 posted on 09/24/2023 10:42:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

6 plane loads to Delaware


2 posted on 09/24/2023 10:46:21 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uh, with three (?) million new folks, just how much resources we talking? Some would think they’d be as depleted as the strategic petrol reserves.


3 posted on 09/24/2023 10:47:11 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And the clowns who man the gate are allowing this to happen.


4 posted on 09/24/2023 10:48:31 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

El Paso County is historically Democratic. In the 2008 election Obama won 66% of the vote with 121,589 votes even though he lost the entire state of Texas by about 946,000 votes. Republican John McCain won 33% of the vote in El Paso County with 61,598 votes.

Another:
Election analysis: Biden won El Paso County by a smaller margin than Hillary Clinton.
From Medium, a web news site:
To many Democrats’ surprise, while Joe Biden won by 17 percentage points in counties near the Texas-Mexico border, this was only half of Hillary Clinton’s 33-point lead in the same counties (Samuels et al. 2020). This indicates that more people voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than in 2016 in these traditionally Democrat counties. One of these counties, El Paso, boasted that more El Pasoans voted in the 2020 presidential election than in any other election in the past 20 years (Villagran 2020). According to the El Paso Times, “more than 256,000, or 53% of registered voters cast a ballot in the 2020 election,” and a majority of these votes, 222,149, were cast via early voting (Villagran 2020). More specifically, in El Paso County, 66.4% of voters cast a ballot for Joe Biden while 32.0% voted for Donald Trump (El Paso Times 2020). For comparison, in 2016, 72.7% of El Pasoans voted for Hillary Clinton, and 27.3% voted for Donald Trump (The New York Times 2016).


5 posted on 09/24/2023 10:51:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Exceeding shelter capacity”

Is it our responsibility to provide shelter? Didn’t these people have some sort of plan before they came?


6 posted on 09/24/2023 10:53:41 AM PDT by packagingguy
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“some sort of plan”

Of course they have a plan ...get free $#!!

The sand in the hour glass is getting thin.


7 posted on 09/24/2023 11:00:37 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anyone who calls the illegal invaders “migrants” has already lost the battle and the war.


8 posted on 09/24/2023 11:04:08 AM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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Whaaaa......weld the regime's fence openings shut then, Oscar.

Friends in EP have reported seeing very large charter flights, with the white buses seen in the Michael Yon/Ben Berquam/other indy reporters, lined up in area of said flights.

And, here's a timely reminder, Oscar.....a picture is worth MILLIONS of invaders, right? ...

It’s ALL Intentional Destruction Upon Americans By Democrats!!
El Paso, Texas at Breaking Point as Migrants Flood Border, Mayor Says https://t.co/MvKSdhEjDk— Angie (@angie_anson) September 24, 2023


9 posted on 09/24/2023 11:07:17 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is tnow fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Federal gov’t ain’t gonna do squat. Except maybe give some of the migrants work permits.

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal this weekend on how the vast increase in foreign workers is good for the economy, because that leads to fewer worker shortages and resultant lower wages.

So the Democrats like the migrants because many become dependent on the government for support, resulting in their support for Democrats, and the fat cats in both parties like the idea of paying lower wages.

In any case, the sheeple get screwed as usual.


10 posted on 09/24/2023 11:16:29 AM PDT by RAldrich
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Is illegal suck-up Biden being hustled by whining sanctuary city Democrats?

CNN is reporting that Mexico has an agreement with the United States to deport illegals from its border cities to their home countries and take several actions to deter migrants as part of a new effort to combat the recent surge in border crossings.

Mexican officials met with US Customs and Border Protection officials on Friday in Ciudad Juárez,, Mexico, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, following the recent spike in illegal crossings into the US, which temporarily closed an international bridge and paused Mexico’s main cargo train system.

As part of the agreement, Mexico agreed to “depressurize” its northern cities, which border the El Paso, San Diego and Eagle Pass, Texas, where the mayor has declared a state of emergency. They will also implement more than a dozen actions to prevent migrants from risking their lives by using the railway system to reach the US-Mexico border, according to Mexico’s National Migration Institute.

Mexico is happy to comply because the crush of illegals is a skyrocketing burden to its economy and border areas as well. Human trafficking by cartels and associate drug related crime has been hard to control in the past, now becoming unmanageable under current conditions.

Immigration watchers are noting a dramatic rise in illegals piling onto freight trains w/ no sanitary facilities headed to the US border


11 posted on 09/24/2023 11:17:20 AM PDT by Liz ( 2024 Dems will have the same guy with the same team around him, just older.)
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The US is fast approaching “the Fall of Rome” level of self-serving illegals who rampage a country, demand all of the benefits of a successful culture, but criminally avoid integration or embracing the historic culture, and its laws.

Time is running out before these illegals mass together into an “identity group,” organize politically, and decimate our country to Third World levels in a calculated measure far greater than what we’ve already seen.

12 posted on 09/24/2023 11:24:07 AM PDT by Liz ( 2024 Dems will have the same guy with the same team around him, just older.)
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The US is fast approaching “the Fall of Rome” level of self-serving illegals who rampage a country, demand all of the benefits of a successful culture, but criminally avoid integration or embracing the historic culture, and its laws.

We have citizens like this.

13 posted on 09/24/2023 11:27:03 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I've always wanted to leave my blue state for Texas.

Not so much anymore.

14 posted on 09/24/2023 11:29:25 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: stevio

Yeah.....they’re called Democrats.


15 posted on 09/24/2023 11:31:17 AM PDT by Liz ( 2024 Dems will have the same guy with the same team around him, just older.)
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Didn’t these people have some sort of plan before they came?

Yes--get in front of the cameras of marxist journalists, look pathetic and cry alot.

16 posted on 09/24/2023 11:34:15 AM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Freight trains run from there to LA and Chicago and points east……


17 posted on 09/24/2023 11:34:22 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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SEND HALF OF THEM TO NEW YORK CITY AND HALF TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD...

18 posted on 09/24/2023 11:40:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (President Trump: ‘How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get?’ (ransom payment Iran))
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To: Manic_Episode

Probably best.

Work to change your blue state, to red.

We’ll keep fighting for TX.


19 posted on 09/24/2023 11:43:01 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is tnow fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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They are on street corners now panhandling. I don’t even go downtown unless i have to.


20 posted on 09/24/2023 11:44:47 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
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