U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in McAllen have started to release asylum seekers in Valley towns, 5,600 in Brownsville according to city officials. Yesterday this group was looking for lodging as they walked along the downtown area headed for the Cameron Park Hotel.
City officials said ICE will continue to drop off Central Americans seeking asylum here in the coming days. The overflow of asylum seekers who are being released by ICE has drawn national media coverage here again.
Many wait in the city until relatives or sponsors buy bus tickets for them to go to their destinations across the United States. With other caravans forming in Honduras and El Salvador and headed for Guatemala, Mexico, and then the border, this may well become a common sight.)