Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) says El Paso County, Texas, officials are helping resettle thousands of illegal aliens across the United States who do not have eligible claims for asylum.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last week, Nehls detailed how El Paso County officials are using their recently-created Migrant Support Services Center to resettle illegal aliens, with no eligible claims for asylum, in American communities across all 50 states.
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego (D) said that since October 2022, the migrant center has helped resettle nearly 27,000 border crossers in the U.S. interior.
Samaniego suggested that El Paso’s migrant center could be a model for President Joe Biden to routinely bus and fly border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior.
Border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border claiming credible fear have only a 14 percent chance of securing asylum, Nehls noted. Meanwhile, 86 percent are denied asylum.
Nehls testified:
So 14 percent of 26,829 is 3,756 … congratulations, [El Paso County’s] center has assisted over 23,000 illegals that have been scattered throughout the country, coming into Houston, buses every day, scattered throughout the entire country, and 23,000 of those [26,829 border crossers] will never be able to have a legitimate asylum claim because only 14 percent of them do … that puts the American people at risk and it puts the American people last. [Emphasis added]
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