Tension and uncertainty reigned across the U.S.-Mexico border, as thousands of migrants sought shelter from the bitter cold, the Texas National Guard arrived...
was expected to lead to a rise in migrants seeking to turn themselves in to U.S. immigration authorities at the border. U.S. immigration officials cautioned that dynamics are shifting, and the feared numbers may not come near what officials have been predicting.
The Rio Grande Valley was the busiest region for U.S. immigration authorities until migrants pushed the Del Rio region and then El Paso to the top. In Del Rio, where migration hit a high point this summer and fall, Tiffany Burrow, the operations director of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Center, said the day shelter has seen increasing numbers of migrants. This year, the respite center has seen twice as many migrants as last year. “Over 46,000 and continuing to climb,” Burrow said.
Despite the court stay Monday, the city of El Paso rushed to expand its ability to accommodate more migrants by converting large buildings into shelters, as the Red Cross brings in 10,000 cots. A few weeks ago, they had set up a camp called “Little Venezuela,” on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from a temporary U.S. Border Patrol mobile processing center. Now, instead of the processing center, they saw members of the Texas National Guard and officials with the Department of Public Safety.
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