El Paso struggles to house migrants after shelter closes as border crossings surge
by Trisha Garcia in El Paso from US news | The Guardian on (#64J7G)
City's new facility has to find shelters for those without alternative after a 40-year beacon of refuge shuttered earlier this year
Chairs and tables lined El Paso's new Migrant Welcome Center in west Texas, where families who have crossed the US-Mexico border without immigration papers were meeting with volunteers and city employees, or making phone calls to loved ones elsewhere in the United States.
Children amused themselves in a designated play area, while their parents worked out where the next steps of their journey would take them and how they would get there.
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