Texas border cities scramble to shelter thousands of newly-arrived migrants

Lighting strikes and dust blows from an incoming thunderstorm as hundreds of migrants line up under the Puente Negro Ferrocarril train bridge in Eagle Pass, waiting to surrender to authorities after wading across the Rio Grande into the U.S. on Sept. 15. (Credit: REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

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EL PASO — Thousands of migrants have crossed from Mexico to Eagle Pass and El Paso in the past few days, with both cities struggling to find shelter for the new arrivals as immigration officials process and release many of them into the border cities.