Thread: El Paso cleans up migrant camps before Joe Biden border visit

El Paso cleans up migrant camps before Joe Biden border visit



Story by Isabel Vincent • Yesterday 4:55 PM

January 7,2023

Authorities in El Paso have been tearing down migrant encampments under cover of darkness and dispatching hundreds of migrants across the border to Mexico ahead of President Biden’s scheduled Sunday visit to the overwhelmed border town.

Encampments near the downtown bus station and the Sacred Heart Church, which operates a shelter, have been dismantled by local authorities over the last two nights as the city prepares to host President Biden’s first visit to the southern border, according to a photographer for The Post who witnessed it.

Six buses loaded with mostly Venezuelan migrants were spotted crossing a downtown bridge to Ciudad Juarez, the frontier city in Mexico, Saturday, as police escorted dozens more to a pedestrian crossing.

“El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened there. Just in time for Biden’s ‘visit to the border,'” tweeted the Border Patrol Union. “We suggest landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling him it’s El Paso. He’ll never know the difference.”

The Border Patrol Union has complained of low morale among frontline agents who have had to deal with an historic number of migrants crossing the southern border in fiscal 2022. More than 2.4 million migrants have crossed along the nearly 2,000 mile border with Mexico, with tens of thousands pouring into El Paso in recent weeks.





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Rep. Mayra Flores is the first Mexican-born congresswoman. LM Otero/AP

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The situation grew so chaotic, with thousands of migrants crossing into El Paso every week, that Oscar Leeser, the mayor of the border city of more than 670,000 residents, called a state of emergency last month.



“El Paso clears downtown of expansive migrant camps ahead of Biden visit,” tweeted Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores, who represents South Texas. “Why not show him what our border community and law enforcement officials are dealing with on a daily basis.


Throughout the week, migrants huddled near the Sacred Heart church, worried about being shipped back across the border, according to a local report. Police as well as Texas Department of Public Safety officers and US Border Patrol patrolled the downtown area where migrant encampments had been set up, according to the El Paso Times. The patrols began to increase Tuesday night, and have continued through Saturday.

“CBP, which is responsible for securing the US border between ports of entry, uses a layered approach that included patrolling the border itself, nearby areas, and neighborhoods, and conducting checkpoints — both stationary and temporary,” said a spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection. “In response to migrants evading apprehension in the El Paso area, the United States Border Patrol has increased the number of agents patrolling the area.”

The agency did not say how many migrants had been detained in the roundups.

El Paso police did not immediately return a request for comment Saturday nor did the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Additional reporting by James Keviom


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The lying cheating corrupt Democrats do everything under the cover of darkness!

Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas should be taken to the Rio Grande River and given trash bags to clean up the filthy mess these animals have strewn all across our border and river!

Potemkin Village: Officials Clear Homeless Migrants from El Paso Streets Ahead of Biden Visit

by BOB PRICE 8 Jan 2023

Multiple media outlets report local police and Border Patrol agents began an effort during the last week to remove and arrest migrants from the streets of El Paso ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the Texas-Mexico border. The roundup appears to be an attempt to set up a Potemkin Village that paints a much different picture of the El Paso humanitarian crisis of just two weeks ago.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents and local police officers began arresting migrants sleeping on city streets in the day’s leading up to President Joe Biden’s first-ever visit to the Texas-Mexico border, NBC News reported.



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Latest from ⁦@JuliaEAinsley⁩ & ⁦@DidiMartinez5⁩:Video shows border agents, police arresting migrants sleeping outside church shelter in El Paso ahead of President Biden's visit



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Video shows border agents arresting migrants sleeping by church shelter
Immigration advocates say the proximity of the arrests to a church shelter may violate the Biden administration's own policies.

5:43 PM · Jan 7, 2023

Photos from the Daily Mail tweeted by Mark Levin show the before and after scenes after the roundup of migrants.



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This is what dictatorships do



dailymail.co.uk
El Paso clears migrant camps ahead of Biden's first border visit
Border agents accuse President Joe Biden of timing his first trip to the Mexico border for a period when the crisis is easing - as it always does in January.

9:13 AM · Jan 8, 2023

Immigration advocates complain that the arrest of migrants outside churches and shelters may violate Department of Homeland Security policies, NBC reported.



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El Paso rushes to remove illegal immigrants and migrant camps that are crowding downtown before Biden arrives.
Predictable.
Biden does not want America to see the chaos that he has caused on the border.
This is just a photo op and a game of pretend.



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El Paso clears downtown of expansive migrant camps ahead of Biden visit
AUSTIN, Texas — City sidewalks that transformed into makeshift homeless camps as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants were released into downtown El Paso in recent months have been cleared out...

5:41 PM · Jan 7, 2023

Border Patrol officials confirmed the arrest of migrants in El Paso who crossed the border and did not initially surrender to agents.

“In response to migrants evading apprehension in the El Paso area, the United States Border Patrol has increased the number of agents patrolling the area,” an El Paso Sector spokesman told NBC. The spokesman said the actions are part of a “layered approach hat includes patrolling the border itself, nearby areas and neighborhoods, and conducting checkpoints.”

El Paso Matters wrote: “The sounds of crowds of people talking, crying, laughing and praying around the streets of Downtown El Paso were silenced overnight Wednesday as U.S. Border Patrol agents swept up large crowds of migrants near the Greyhound bus terminal.”

“By Thursday morning, all that remained were sidewalks lined with piles of blankets, clothes and toys – which were thrown away by city crews who quickly swept and cleaned up the area,” the report continued. One woman told the local news about the fear she saw in people’s eyes as police arrested the homeless migrants camped out on the streets.

The agency also appears to have stepped up migrant removals under Title 42 in advance of the president’s visit on Sunday.



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A day before President Biden shows up at the border migrant expulsions have been non stop. Speaking of whitewashing El Paso.

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2:41 PM · Jan 7, 2023

Washington Examiner reporter tweeted a video showing the scenes on the streets of El Paso she says Biden won’t see during his visit.



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NEW: Here is what Biden won’t see during his border trip to El Paso on Sunday.
The city has cleared the streets of encampments like this one, where thousands of migrant adults and kids live for days, even weeks, after being released by Border Patrol. https://washex.am/3QhhiYa

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10:53 AM · Jan 6, 2023

Breitbart Texas reported Sunday morning, a list of other things President Biden won’t see during his visit to El Paso.
During a White House press briefing late last week, Biden spokesman John Kirby dodged a question from a reporter asking if the president will see a “sanitized version of El Paso.”



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Reporter: “El Paso has cleared the downtown of these expansive migrant camps that have grown there in advance of the president’s arrival. Is the president going to see a sanitized version of El Paso when he arrives at the border?”
Biden Spokesman John Kirby: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611426932192837633

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1:18 PM · Jan 6, 2023

Another Twitter user blamed El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser for the clearing of migrant camps ahead of the president’s visit.



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Reporter: “El Paso has cleared the downtown of these expansive migrant camps that have grown there in advance of the president’s arrival. Is the president going to see a sanitized version of El Paso when he arrives at the border?”Biden Spokesman John Kirby: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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1:18 PM · Jan 6, 2023

The NBC report concludes:

In October 2021, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas sent a memo to the heads of all DHS agencies, in part reminding them that places like houses of worship and courthouses are places where undocumented immigrants should not be arrested.

He noted that areas in proximity to those safe places may also be considered protected.

“We need to consider the fact that an enforcement action taken near — and not necessarily in — the protected area can have the same restraining impact on an individual’s access to the protected area itself,” Mayorkas said in the memo. “If indeed that would be the case, then, to the fullest extent possible, we should not take the enforcement action near the protected area.”

It is not known what President Biden will see when he visits the border in El Paso on Sunday. The White House did not disclose in advance who the president will meet with and what he plans to visit during the border trip.

The New York Times stated that Biden’s visit to El Paso “is bound to be awkward. Governor Abbott, who’s actions helped slow the migrant crisis in El Paso, has not announced any plans to meet with the president.

What is clear is the El Paso President Biden Visits on January 8 is much different than the El Paso of just two weeks ago.

Potemkin Village: Officials Clear Homeless Migrants from El Paso Streets Ahead of Biden Visit (breitbart.com)