The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, has declared a state of emergency over concerns the city won’t be able to provide shelter and resources to the thousands of asylum seekers arriving in freezing weather conditions.
We know that the influx on Wednesday will be incredible, that it will be huge. Talking to some of our federal partners, they really believe that on Wednesday our numbers will go from 2,500 to 4,000, 5,000 or maybe 6,000. And when I asked them, I said, “Do you believe that you guys can handle it today?” the answer was no. When I got an answer of no, that meant we needed to do something and do something right away.
Unfortunately, the administration, the current administration, Biden administration, continue with it. We did not understand, up still today, why they make the political decision to continue with something that was so bad, so illegal in many ways. When I say “illegal,” it’s because it was breaking international law. It was rejecting refugees and asylum seekers. It was not guaranteeing basic due process for people. And, however, this administration refused to end it.
So, no, I mean, the answer is, we don’t have an invasion, the way that some Republicans and some white nationalistic people is talking about. What we have is a fundamental failure of the immigration system. It’s been broken. No administration in the past, not this one, has done anything to fix it. However, I’m very concerned about the cities that are connecting with the resources of the state, because Greg Abbott is going to use it politically. I mean, he’s been using the issues of immigration since before the elections and right after the election, because he has political goals and aims. So, he’s using immigrants as a scapegoat, since he continues calling them criminals and a threat to the United States. So I don’t believe that the state’s solution is a solution.
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