‘We need to decompress the system’: El Paso Mayor on busing migrants to New York

“We had 200-300 a day, and it was very manageable for us. Now we have 1400 a day. It’s easy math.”: During a city council work session on September 12th, 2022, El Paso Mayor, Oscar Leeser, talks about the strain on the El Paso social services and why they’ve been working with the New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, to help get migrants where they want to go.