El Paso mayor tries to walk out of press conference

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : El Paso erected new fencing along the U.S. side of the southern border as thousands of migrant crossings over the weekend have put residents of the Texas city on edge.
49% : El Paso in recent days has witnessed hundreds of migrants wading across shallows waters of the Rio Grande into the U.S., forming lines along a border wall to approach immigration authorities and request refuge.
47% : The Department of Homeland Security is indicating it may release more migrants into the United States when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week, with local government and border officials warning of immigrants waiting to cross into the U.S.Under current restrictions, migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum more than 2.5 million times on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
47% : Migrants queue near the border wall after crossing the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El PasoPeople line up inside the migrant welcome center across from the bus station in Brownsville, Texas, on FridayMigrants wait in the Central Park of Tapachula City, Mexico Friday evening
47% : Workers were pictured putting up new temporary fencing along the U.S. side of the southern border on Tuesday
37% : Workers were pictured by DailyMail.com on Tuesday putting up fencing in an apparent attempt to prevent illegal crossings into El Paso, Texas or direct migrants to one specific point to turn themselves into Border Patrol officials.

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