In El Paso, migrants are sleeping on the streets after thousands crossed the border last weekend

Two migrants, one from Venezuela and one from Nicaragua, carry a mattress that an El Paso resident gave them to a parking garage, where they would spend the night. They were among thousands of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande over the weekend and surrendered to Border Patrol agents before being processed. With shelters full, hundreds were dropped off in the city’s streets. (Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune)

EL PASO — Victor Wilson stood in the cold near a downtown bus station with a few dozen fellow migrants on Monday evening and wrapped himself in a thin white blanket that barely protected him from the chilly winds.

Wilson, a 46-year-old Creole man from Nicaragua’s Corn Islands, was among the thousands of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso over the weekend. Now he was looking to escape the 45-degree weather and ducked into a nearby parking garage, carrying a bag of potato chips and a 2-liter bottle of pineapple soda.