According to the New York Post, at least three of the El Paso City Council’s eight members have asked Mayor Oscar Leeser to issue an emergency declaration in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the thousands of migrants who have filled city’s shelters and hotels, but he has thus far resisted taking that step. Hundreds of migrants have reportedly been sleeping on the streets without access to toilets or showers, and residents have complained that the “smell of human waste is overwhelming in the area.”
“We’ve never seen anything like this. It’s a scene that you would see in a third-world country, not in the streets of El Paso,” said Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas), in a tweet last month.
Mayor Leeser admitted during a phone conversation in September that the Biden White House had urged him not to declare a state of emergency, Councilmember Claudia Rodriguez told the Post.
“He told me the White House asked him not to,” Rodriguez said, adding that Leeser had repeatedly assured her that he’d declare a state of emergency “if things got worse.” That could happen soon, as thousands of Venezuelans are currently headed to El Paso, according to Gonzales.
The surge of Venezuelans has come as a result of the Biden regime officially extending special protections for Venezuelan migrants, known as Temporary Protected Status, that shield some of them from deportation.
Gonzales said he has also heard from city officials that the Biden regime has pressured the mayor to keep the city’s humanitarian crisis on the down-low.
“It is a sleight of hand what the administration is doing—pressuring the local government to not issue a declaration of emergency, to say as if everything is going OK,” he said.
The congressman told the Post that the White House has done “the same thing in other parts of my district,” which have also seen a huge influx of migrants seeking refuge.
Leeser refused to speak to the Post, but said in a prepared statement: “I don’t bow to pressure from any side.”
He added, “I make decisions based on current circumstances and in the best interest of the citizens of El Paso.” The statement also praised the federal government for providing his city with “critical” assistance.
But during Sept. 27 City Council meeting, Leeser admitted: “The White House has asked, at this point, for us not to do that [declare an emergency] and they’ll continue to work with us and continue to give us … money through...
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I would have declared that state of emergency before Biden had finished the sentence!
Quid pro quo.
To the politicians and people of El Paso it is not going to get better under Biden. So to the people of El Paso look at electing new politicians.
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