The American border city faces a potential collapse due to an influx of asylum seekers.
According to CNN, the influx of refugees to a border city in the south of America has brought this city to the brink of collapse.
In this regard, “Oscar Lazer”, the mayor of El Paso in the state of Texas, USA, said that the multifold increase in the influx of immigrants coming from the Mexican border has put this city in danger of collapse.
It is said that the city of El Paso has faced the arrival of more than two thousand asylum seekers per day in the past few days, which is beyond the capacity and facilities of this city to shelter them.
“With this amount of asylum seekers entering the city, we have now reached the breaking point in providing municipal services,” Oscar Leeser said at the press conference.
While criticizing the current situation, the mayor of El Paso said that he plans to provide a new shelter for immigrants, and at the same time, he will move immigrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver.
Saying that all immigrants will be sent to other cities in El Paso buses, Oscar Leeser also described the US immigration system as inefficient and said: “Right now, about two-thirds of the people who come to El Paso are single men. About 32% of asylum seekers are families and only 2% are orphaned children.
The mayor of El Paso also called for the improvement of immigration laws in the United States.
Last month, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, warned about the risk of bankruptcy of the city due to the monthly influx of 10,000 refugees and immigrants.
Adams said during a public meeting with local New York officials that the city is currently suffering from a budget deficit that has so far reached $12 billion and that if the influx of immigrants continues, the city will be on the brink of “inevitable bankruptcy.”
He noted that the continued influx of refugees from across the southern border and nearby cities into New York will negatively affect the services provided to everyone in the city.
Last March, the New York Times reported that immigration in major US cities had tripled even as population growth declined.
The number of immigrants in 20 of America’s most populous cities nearly tripled between 2021 and 2022, new census data shows, as immigration across the country returns to pre-pandemic levels.
Since March of last year, the Biden government has imposed new and strict restrictions against immigrants in order to prevent the influx of immigrants to the southern border (the border with Mexico). The new rules stipulate that immigrants and asylum seekers who enter the US through the southern border will no longer be legal immigrants and will be treated differently.
Instead, asylum seekers must first go through the processes of registration and filling out the forms of the “Customs and Border Patrol” department.
According to American media reports, nearly 200,000 people try to enter the American territory through the southern borders every month, and these new laws will increase their concerns.
In his recent speech, US President Joe Biden used the word “crisis” for the first time to describe the situation of the country’s southern borders in the face of the wave of refugees.
Biden and the Democrats were serious opponents of the former Republican President Donald Trump’s plan, but now they are talking about “the refugee crisis and the need to deal with it seriously”; Donald Trump implemented the plan to build a wall in the border areas to deal with the refugee crisis on the southern border.