Associated Press / WASHINGTON TIMES
The surge of migrant families crossing the southern border is overwhelming a bus station and aid organizations in San Antonio. The San Antonio Express-News reports city shelters have run out of space for the hundreds of people U.S. authorities are releasing from family detention centers around the city and on the border. The influx of people to San Antonio and other cities comes after U.S. officials announced so many families and children are entering the country from Mexico that they will be immediately released instead of transferred to immigration officers. Border agents are on track to make 100,000 arrests and denials of entry at the southern border this month. A San Antonio aid worker, Sister Denise LaRock, told the Express-News local nonprofits lack the infrastructure to help everyone.
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LIFEZETTE
Making good on a longstanding threat, President Donald Trump moved this weekend to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S. resources at the southern border — including as part of organized caravans that the White House has warned may eventually lead to the closure of the entire southern border with Mexico. The move comes just days after Mexican Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero warned ominously that “the mother of all caravans” could be coming soon from the three nations. “We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ‘the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people,” Sanchez Cordero said on Wednesday. A much smaller group of approximately 40 migrants left over the weekend, and a separate caravan of nearly 2,500 is currently making its way through Mexico.
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BREITBART
Former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) on Saturday formally kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign, declaring at a rally in El Paso, Texas, that immigrants and asylum seekers make the border town safe. In a speech to over 1000 supporters, O’Rourke drew a sharp contrast between his immigration policies and those of President Donald Trump, extolling the virtues of increased immigration and diversity as a unifying force. “With Ciudad Juarez we form the largest binational community in this hemisphere. And for 20 years running, we’ve been one of the safest cities in the United States of America,” the El Paso native declared. “We are safe not despite the fact that we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers. We are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers.”
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NY POST
More than 100,000 illegal immigrants are poised to cross the US border into Texas — a crisis threatening to overwhelm facilities operated by the feds as well as shelters run by cities near the border, according to shocking new reports. That’s the biggest monthly total in more than a decade, according to USA Today. “It’s staggering,’’ the city manager of McAllen, Texas, Roy Rodriguez, told station KETK. “Really, we’ve never seen anything like this before.’’ US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the border has hit “its breaking point.’’
