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   From: buttwipe@msnbc.com   
      
   U.S. Customs and Border Protection began releasing migrants Wednesday onto   
   the streets of Cochise County.   
      
   Customs and Border Protection notified the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office   
   and the county’s emergency management about the releases into the rural   
   southeastern Arizona county, according to Cochise County Sheriff Mark   
   Dannels.   
      
   The migrants were bussed into Cochise County, processed and then released,   
   Dannels wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday.   
      
   “Cochise County is a rural county with limited resources leaving these   
   migrants vulnerable,” Dannels wrote in the post. “This lack of   
   humanitarian consideration poses risk for the migrants.”   
      
   Nonprofit organizations in Tucson and Somerton usually receive asylum   
   seekers and help transport them to Phoenix or Tucson after they’re paroled   
   into the country. The organizations help arrange travel to their final   
   destinations while providing shelter, food and medical services.   
      
   However, if there is an increase in arrivals, shelters may reach their   
   capacity and cannot accept any more asylum seekers.   
      
   The Border Patrol can only hold migrants for a certain amount of time in   
   its facilities, and if the agency is at capacity, it resorts to releasing   
   asylum seekers under parole directly into border communities that are   
   often unequipped to help them.   
      
   Street releases in border communities were narrowly avoided in May when   
   the state implemented bus routes to transport migrants to larger cities.   
   The state-sponsored bus routes prevented the release of nearly 5,000   
   asylum seekers into rural communities that lack the infrastructure and   
   resources to look after them.   
      
   The communities are often miles away from the nearest airport and bus   
   depots that can help them reach their final destinations elsewhere in the   
   country. The routes ran twice a day from Douglas, Naco, Bisbee and Nogales   
   to the Casa Alitas migrant shelter in Tucson and shelters in Phoenix.   
      
   It’s unclear if the state-run bus program is still in effect.   
      
   Street releases in Arizona communities have happened before. Beginning in   
   October 2018, the Border Patrol occasionally released asylum seekers into   
   small communities such as Ajo and Gila Bend.   
      
   The releases caught officials off guard as they scrambled to respond and   
   transport migrants to Phoenix. The practice stretched into 2021.   
      
   This is a developing story. Check back for updates.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/customs-border-protection-releasing-migrants-   
   171219960.html   
      
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