EL PASO, Texas — A chartered bus carrying migrants is scheduled to leave El Paso for New York on Tuesday, marking the first time city and county officials have agreed to work with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
The move reflects a deepening scramble to better manage increasing migration into Texas and is particularly noteworthy because El Paso largely touts its historic role as the Ellis Island of the southwest.
Monday, Venezuelan immigrant Daniela Linares, 23, waited at Opportunity Center’s Welcome Center, near the international bridge, to hop on a bus that would take her to meet her husband already on the East Coast. A smuggler in Mexico told her to reroute through Ciudad Juárez, across from this city, because passage through Piedras Negras and into Eagle Pass was too difficult.
