A local NGO church-run shelter forced migrants without funds to cover their transportation costs onto the streets of Eagle Pass, Texas.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — A local non-government church-run shelter forced migrants without sufficient funds to cover their transportation costs out onto the streets of Eagle Pass, Texas. Breitbart Texas spoke to multiple groups of mostly Venezuelan migrants who left the border city on foot, hoping to reach San Antonio — a march of more than 150 miles.
As temperatures neared 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, the migrants began their journey, most of them without sufficient supplies of water needed to make the trek. The video shows six frustrated migrants who spoke to Breitbart Texas more than ten miles outside the city.Two of the six migrants told Breitbart Texas they were headed to New York City, and the remaining four said they were headed to Houston.
The shelter receives the migrants directly from the United States Border Patrol daily. According to a source within CBP, the Border Patrol releases migrants to the shelter instead of releasing them straight onto the city streets. The source says the agency hopes to avoid adding to the homeless population and expects the shelter to accommodate the migrants’ travel to the interior of the United States.
“We had no knowledge that the poorest of migrants would be thrown out on the streets and expected to walk more than 150 miles to the next largest city, but that is where we are,” the source emphasized.The source says the system has reached a breaking point. “We have no other option but complete surrender at this point,” the source lamented. “Our facilities are full, the NGO shelters have exceeded their capacity as well, and we are releasing every migrant we can just to stay afloat.
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