<p>The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas says the city has reached &#8220;a breaking point&#8221; with floods of migrants coming in every day and said the city chartered five buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver over the weekend.</p>
<p>El Paso is seeing more than 2,000 migrants per day, pushing the border city&#8217;s shelters and resources past capacity. The new migrants are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-paso-texas-at-breaking-point-migrants-flood-border-mayor-says-2023-09-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> mostly Venezuelans.</p>
<p>&#8220;The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come to &#8230; a breaking point right now,&#8221; Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-paso-texas-at-breaking-point-migrants-flood-border-mayor-says-2023-09-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference on Saturday.</p>
<p>El Paso chartered five buses to send migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver on Saturday, Leeser said.</p>
<p>Previously, the Republican governors of Texas and Florida who sent migrants to blue cities were skewered by Democrats, who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis-biden-democrats-criticism#:~:text=Joe%20Biden%20has%20accused%20Ron,move%20is%20also%20under%20scrutiny." target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> them of “playing politics with people’s lives.”</p>
<p>However, El Paso&#8217;s mayor said the migrants his city put on buses were traveling voluntarily to the cities of their choice.</p>
<p>The migrant crisis at the border has been ramping up in recent weeks.</p>
<p>In August, there were nearly 233,000 migrant encounters at the southern border, the highest August on record, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-numbers-break-another-record-under-biden-southern-border-hit-new-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. That number marks a jump from under 184,000 encounters in July.</p>
<p>Last month&#8217;s numbers are also a significant rise from August a year ago, when there were only 204,000 migrant encounters. September&#8217;s numbers are already tens of thousands of encounters <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-texas-california-border-asylum-seekers-314698bfb5644be8f8f6085ebe9b9b98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than last year as well.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, several major cities, particularly New York and Chicago, have been struggling with a migrant crisis as tens of thousands of newcomers show up on their doorstep.</p>
<p>New York City is struggling to metabolize <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/house-democrats-migrant-crisis-tour-interrupted-by-protesters-outside-roosevelt-hotel#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 113,000 migrants who have shown up in the city since last spring, nearly 60,000 of whom are still being housed on the city’s dime.</p>
<p>The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.</p>
<p>The situation has sparked tension between New York’s Democratic leaders and the Biden administration, with the governor and mayor calling for more federal help with the migrant crisis.</p>
<p>Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has since given New York City $140 million in federal funding to address the migrant crisis, but Mayor Eric Adams has said it would take more aid to get the situation under control.</p>
<p>Chicago is also facing a migrant crisis and is struggling to find long-term solutions. The country’s third-largest city has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> an influx of about 13,500 migrants recently and has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.</p>
<p>Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-migrants-news-migrant-plan/13752467/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed</a> his plan for massive migrant tents earlier this month.</p>
<p>Last week, Chicago officials inked a $29.4 million deal with with a private security firm to build, staff, and operate the huge tents, which must be able to house between 250 and 1,400 migrants.</p>
<p>The federal government has already given Chicago and Illinois <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/5/5/23713285/chicago-state-of-illinois-get-8-5-million-in-federal-migrant-grants-asked-for-up-to-191-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> $8.5 million for the migrant crisis.</p>
<p>In Denver, migrants have also arrived by the hundreds in recent weeks. Denver has <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/08/23/denver-increase-migrant-arrivals-august" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> at least $23 million on recent migrant arrivals.</p>

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