US border town Step opened a municipal shelter and is preparing two more shelters before 4500 migrants in anticipation of refugees from Central and South America overflowing the border after the expiration of the rule allowing hot removal on public health grounds.

Two hundred seventy five Red Cross cribs are lined up on Basset High School’s indoor basketball court, which has been closed for three years and is now ready to accept up to five hundred newcomers with a good reputation, that is, who have passed the border guards and passed the screening.

“We are preparing for stranger“, said El Paso Mayor Oscar Lizer, who wanted to draw attention to the fact that “far fewer people entered this week than last week.”

Overall, City Hall estimates that after Section 42, which allowed for outright removal of migrants, expires, they will have to serve between 5,000 and 10,000 refugees.

Though Lieser insisted, “We have seen the numbers go down, but we don’t know what will happen the next day. We do not know what will happen in the next 10 days. What we know is that they will keep coming and we will continue to see that we help.”

Accommodation, meals and travel management assistance

The three centers, which will join existing shelters in the city, will be operated by the American Red Cross and will take people between 24 and 72 hours.

During this time, in addition to providing them with accommodation and food, the authorities will support them in establishing contacts with their relatives, acquaintances or people who care for them, and will offer them transport to bus stations and the airport, provided that the migrants have bought tickets on their own.