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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Trisha Garcia in El Paso

El Paso struggles to house migrants after shelter closes as border crossings surge

Asylum-seeking migrants wait in line before boarding buses to New York and Chicago at the Migrant Welcome Center managed by the city of El Paso, on 3 October.
Migrants wait in line before boarding buses to New York and Chicago at the Migrant Welcome Center managed by the city of El Paso, on 3 October. Photograph: Paul Ratje/Reuters

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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