Asylum seekers continue to travel through New Mexico

By Stephanie Muñiz

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    LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KOAT) — Several of the migrants that have been in El Paso, Texas, have also been traveling through Las Cruces, New Mexico, in order to get to their final destination.

The Border Servant Corps helps shelter, feed and arrange travel for migrants. The executive director, Kari Lenander, says more than 50% of the total people they have helped have been in the past four months.

According to Lenander, many of the asylum seekers already have an idea of where they want to go to the U.S.

“In the past year, we have served more than 40,000 people from more than 50 countries around the world. So people will go where there are networks and support systems and it can change depending on migration patterns,” Lenander said.

Over in El Paso, the city is using schools like Morehead Middle School and Bassett Middle School as additional shelter locations.

“We are working together as one and we’ve gotten two empty schools. Yesterday we signed a contract with our public schools to be able to house them in that area. The Red Cross came down on Monday and brought 10,000 cots,” Oscar Leeser, the mayor of El Paso, said.

Those cots will be set up at the El Paso Convention Center.

Like many other shelters in Las Cruces, they have been constantly communicating with other organizations around the region for the moment Title 42 is lifted.

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