The recent influx has triggered a new wave of political attacks on US president Joe Biden.
El Paso mayor Oscar Leeser chartered five buses to take migrants who crossed the US border to New York, Chicago, and Denver.
The influx of mostly Venezuelan asylum seekers is part of a larger swell of immigrants who travelled dangerous routes on buses and cargo trains to Mexican border towns near San Diego, California, and the Texas cities of El Paso and Eagle Pass. Republican governors in Texas and Florida have been criticised for sending migrants to cities perceived as liberal such as New York and Sacramento. But Leeser, a Democrat, said all of the migrants on the El Paso buses were going voluntarily to the cities of their choice.
As recently as six weeks ago, about 350-400 people were crossing into El Paso per day, but the past few days have brought 2,000 or more.
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