AUSTIN, Texas — The city of El Paso has been inundated with more than 80,000 noncitizens who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were released from federal custody and into its community in nearly four months.
According to all the data that are publicly available from the city, the 678,000 residents of El Paso have seen 84,082 immigrants released into their town between Aug. 22 and Dec. 11. Immigrants were permitted to remain in the United States pending court hearings years down the road. Federal law enforcement agencies Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the releases.
— Alfredo Corchado December 16, 2022 The number of releases has surged recently because more immigrants have come over the border. Limited detention space means federal officials must release people, sometimes directly on the street in an unfamiliar city or town, at a faster rate to make room for more people being arrested.
CBP data shared by the city of El Paso state that an average of 2,442 immigrants have been apprehended over the past week. The largest short-term migrant detention center in El Paso, Border Patrol's Central Processing Center, was completed in 2020 under the Trump administration to provide backup holding space in the case of a mass migration event in the region. Earlier this week, it was at full capacity, with 1,040 people inside and another 700 sleeping outside overnight.
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