Emergency management officials in a remote area near Texas's border with Mexico are rushing to figure out how the tiny town of Carrizo Springs can handle backdoor releases of migrants into their community.
City and county officials in Carrizo Springs and Dimmit County are bracing for the possibility of a crisis in the coming days as the Border Patrol resorts to discharging people in its custody onto the street because the shelter that normally accommodates migrants is at capacity.
Since March 18, agents in the area have apprehended four groups of 100 people each after they crossed the border, as well as smaller groups. Because Border Patrol stations on the border in Del Rio and Eagle Pass are overwhelmed, migrants in Eagle Pass are sometimes transported to a station that is more than 40 miles away in Carrizo Springs or a station 60 miles away in Uvalde.
— Rep. Tony Gonzales March 23, 2022 Due to the increase in illegal immigration, Mission Border Hope is out of room to take in more people, prompting the Border Patrol to plan to release detainees directly from their stations into Carrizo Springs and Uvalde. Fifty miles northwest of Carrizo Springs is the 16,000-person town of Uvalde, where the Border Patrol has already begun releasing adult migrants. Unlike Carrizo Springs, Uvalde is on a Greyhound bus route that connects Eagle Pass to San Antonio.“This is the first group of illegal aliens released this morning. This group boarded a [Southwest Area Regional Transit District] bus and will be transported to the bus station in San Antonio.
"They won’t release [migrants] until there's a plan worked out. Right now, county emergency management is working on [that] with the Border Patrol," Guerra said.
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