Episode 462: Border Crisis in El Paso, Texas

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Over 2.1 million migrants have crossed the U.S. southern border this year. In August alone, there have been 203,597 border encounters. The Mayor of El Paso, Texas, Oscar Leeser, said the City of El Paso has had between 1,500 to 1,900 migrants coming into their city per day and 80% of the migrants coming from Venezuela. The City of El Paso and the U.S. border patrol are working together to manage the huge influx of migrants. The City of El Paso is busing migrants to their destination. Over half of the migrants do not have a sponsor or the money to get to their final destination. Newt’s guests are El Paso City Manager, Tommy Gonzalez and Deputy City Manager of Public Safety, Mario D’Agostino.

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0:35.7	On this episode of Newt's World, over 2.1 million migrants have crossed the United States Southern
0:42.4	border this year in August alone. There have been 203,597 border encounters.
0:49.0	The mayor of El Paso, Texas Oscar Leaser was on ABC's this week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday,
0:56.0	September 18th and he said the city of El Paso has had between 1500 and 1900 migrants coming
1:04.3	into their city per day and he estimated 80% of the migrants were coming from Venezuela.
1:10.3	The city of El Paso and the US border patrol are working together to manage the huge influx of
1:16.9	migrants. The city of El Paso is busing migrants to their destination. Remarkably 50% of the migrants
1:24.7	do not have a sponsor or the money to get to their final destination. So i want to talk to some
1:30.4	people who are on the ground in El Paso managing the migrant crisis on a day-to-day basis.
1:36.7	So i'm really pleased to welcome my guest El Paso city manager Tommy Gonzalez and deputy city
1:42.1	manager of public safety Mario Dugasino.
1:57.7	Thank you both for joining me on Newt's World. Thank you sir. Thank you for having us.
2:02.3	Tommy if you don't mind i thought i would start with you you've been El Paso city manager
2:07.4	since June of 2014 and you've had I think 12,000 migrants went through in 14 and so far this year
2:15.6	258,000 migrants. How are things changed and how are you coping with this extraordinary scale of people?
2:23.9	What is the normal population of El Paso? We're 700,000 people and this has been going on since late
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