The City of El Paso announced Wednesday it received a new $6 million commitment to underwrite its migrant response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"This funding and shelter is not the answer, it's a Band-Aid to really a bigger problem," said Leeser, a Democrat elected in 2020."It's something we're going to have to work with the and other countries, to work through a situation ... that's again is bigger than El Paso and that now has become bigger than the United States."
"They're working long hours, day and night, they're doing processing rather than their primary function of securing the border," he said. The city recently disbanded its aid and communications center for migrants, while suspending a busing program that delivered thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants to Chicago and New York in September and October.
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