EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – El Paso city officials are tracking migrant caravans making their way to the border from southern Mexico and stand ready to deploy resources if they come here.
“We are monitoring the situation so we can prepare for any potential contingencies,” said Enrique Dueñas, spokesman for the El Paso Fire Department and the Office of Emergency Management. “We don’t know what part of the border they’re going. They might as well go to El Paso or they can end up in McAllen, Texas.”
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Several Mexican news media outlets have been following caravans that left Chiapas state near the border with Guatemala earlier this month and report that more groups are getting ready to depart in the next few days.
Activists like Luis Garcia Villagran of the Center for Human Dignity in Chiapas say thousands of migrants around the city of Tapachula have run out of resources, can’t get jobs and fear that asylum in the U.S. might be curtailed if Donald Trump wins the presidency next month.