El Paso, Texas, Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency following a surge of migrants who have recently arrived in the community and he says are living in unsafe conditions.The mayor, who had previously declined to issue a state of emergency, said "hundreds" of migrants are on the streets in unsafe conditions while temperatures are beginning to drop, and things could get much worse when a Trump-era border policy is lifted on Wednesday in the US, which federal officials expect will lead to an increase in migrant arrivals."We know that the influx on Wednesday will be incredible," the mayor said in a news conference, adding later some officials have estimated the number of arriving migrants could more than double after December 21.
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