El Paso declares state of emergency as US-Mexico border crossings surge: 'Not safe'
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The mayor of El Paso, Texas has declared a state of emergency amid a flux of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border and ahead of an expected surge when Title 42 expires next week.
"I said from the beginning that I would call it when I felt that either our asylum seekers or community were not safe," Leeser said, according to KFOX14. Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants near the border wall, after they entered the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, border with El Paso, Texas, US, on February 3, 2022. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images) Migrants wait to get into a U.S. government bus after crossing the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File) Central American migrants in a caravan to the US, in the state of Guanajuato on November 11, 2018. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images) A plaque marks the U.S. border on the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry bridge which connects the U.S. and Mexico on July 23, 2018 in El Paso, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Members of the US Border Patrol keep watch as Pope Francis holds a mass across the border in Mexico and also watched by US Catholics in El Paso, Texas on February 17, 2016. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)
El Paso, a town located along the U.S.-Mexico border, continues to witness an influx of migrants into its community. It is also expecting a surge of migrants when Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that reduced the number of asylum seekers the U.S. would allow under the COVID pandemic, expires on Dec. 21.