El Paso migrant shelter to close first week of October
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Sacred Heart Church's shelter is set to close on October 7, Pastor Rafael Garcia confirmed to ABC-7.
The shelter will close due to the recent decrease in migrants in the El Paso Sector.
Pastor Garcia said the big turning point was back in June of this year when President Biden issued an immigration executive order, now the majority of people crossing the border are migrants who come in through the CBP One program.
"So the population after June really started going down. And it made us are given this reality, we've decided that we're going to close our shelter starting October 7th," Pastor Garcia said.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, along Border Patrol, the El Paso Sector has seen a total of 243,618 this fiscal year so far, waiting for September to have the final numbers for this FY2024.
These are the number of encounters per month this fiscal year:
- October 2023: 22,106 encounters
- November 2023: 22,408 encounters
- December 2023: 33,966 encounters
- January 2024: 17,514 encounters
- February 2024: 23,918 encounters
- March 2024: 30,422 encounters
- April 2024: 30,397 encounters
- May 2024: 23,478 encounters
- June 2024: 14,513 encounters
- July 2024: 11,614 encounters
- August 2024: 13,282 encounters
