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ICE Continues To Release Asylum-Seekers At Public Park In El Paso, Texas

Officials appear to have resumed coordinating with local shelters after days of dropping off hundreds of mostly Central American migrants without any plan.
Recently released from ICE custody, migrants form a line to board a bus that will take them to a shelter on Christmas Day.

For the third day in a row, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released hundreds of migrant asylum-seekers at a park near a bus station in downtown El Paso. The comparisons to Mary and Joseph wandering the roads of Bethlehem seeking shelter are unavoidable for dozens of volunteers who have stepped in to help.

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