{"id":3702,"date":"2023-01-08T04:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2023-03-21T01:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T06:28:05","slug":"border-city-tidies-up-for-biden-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"US border city ‘cleans up’ for Biden visit<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Paso has cleared out several migrant camps as it prepares to host the president
\nBorder city tidies up for Biden visit<\/p>\n

After weeks of being jammed with migrants flooding across the southern US border, the city of El Paso in Texas is reportedly clearing out the illegal arrivals as it prepares to host a visit by President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

With the president scheduled to arrive on Sunday, El Paso authorities have dismantled massive migrant camps in recent days, including those near the downtown bus station and the Sacred Heart Church. Hundreds of people have reportedly been sent back over the Rio Grande River into Juarez, the Mexican city that sits across the border from El Paso.<\/p>\n

Buses loaded with mostly Venezuelan migrants were seen crossing a downtown bridge to Juarez, the New York Post wrote on Saturday. Police allegedly escorted dozens more migrants to a pedestrian crossing.<\/p>\n

US Representative Mayra Flores, a Texas Republican who last year became the first Mexican-born woman elected to Congress, suggested that the cleanup is being done for Biden\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not show him what our border community and law enforcement officials are dealing with on a daily basis,\u201d Flores said. Thousands of migrants have streamed into El Paso in recent weeks, reflecting a border crisis that has mushroomed since Biden took office in January 2021. The president reportedly hasn\u2019t been to the southern US border since being driven to a campaign event in New Mexico from the El Paso airport in 2008.<\/p>\n

El Paso, located in the southwestern corner of Texas, has been so overwhelmed that videos posted on social media showed dozens of migrants sleeping on the floor of the city\u2019s airport with Red Cross blankets. El Paso\u2019s Democrat mayor, Oscar Leeser, declared a state of emergency last month and even suggested in a CNN interview that the United Nations should intervene to help resolve the humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

Illegal border crossings surged to an all-time high of 2.76 million in the government\u2019s last fiscal year, which ended on September 30. The union for US Border Patrol officers said El Paso\u2019s cleanup for Biden would make the city look like \u201cnothing unusual ever happened there.\u201d The group added, \u201cWe suggest landing in Des Moines, Iowa, and telling him it\u2019s El Paso. He\u2019ll never know the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

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