Texas border city joins in with busing migrants north

In an effort to manage the growing number of asylum-seekers from Latin America arriving at the border, county and city officials of El Paso, a large Texas border city, started to bus migrants out of the region.

The first chartered bus sent 35 Venezuelan migrants to New York last week. This week, El Paso also sent buses with migrants to New York and Chicago, reported El Paso Matters.

According to the US Border Patrol, the El Paso area has seen a sharp increase in migrants arriving in West Texas and New Mexico, with as many as 900 people per day. Government holding facilities and local hospitality site shelter capacity have been stretched thin with the arrival of so many migrants.