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EL PASO — Hundreds of migrants, part of a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua, crossed en masse into the United States at El Paso on Sunday, among the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years.
The group of about 800 to 1,000 people was one of several in recent days that have flooded border facilities in the region with thousands of new arrivals, federal authorities said.
It was the second time in recent months when large migrant crossings threatened to overwhelm the resources of the impoverished border town and the federal immigration authorities who are already strained by what has been a steady arrival of migrants throughout the year.
“A very large number of people arrived — a huge, huge number,” said Ruben Garcia, the director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit that provides shelter to asylum seekers after they have been processed and released by U.S. authorities
EL PASO — Hundreds of migrants, part of a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua, crossed en masse into the United States at El Paso on Sunday, among the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years.
The group of about 800 to 1,000 people was one of several in recent days that have flooded border facilities in the region with thousands of new arrivals, federal authorities said.
It was the second time in recent months when large migrant crossings threatened to overwhelm the resources of the impoverished border town and the federal immigration authorities who are already strained by what has been a steady arrival of migrants throughout the year.
“A very large number of people arrived — a huge, huge number,” said Ruben Garcia, the director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit that provides shelter to asylum seekers after they have been processed and released by U.S. authorities
