ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on Christmas Eve

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• Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part of Christmas Eve in a downtown parking lot in El Paso, Texas, without knowing where they'll end up next.
• Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents began dropping off migrants at a local bus station without warning local shelters.

• The total number of people could exceed 800 by Wednesday, according to Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke.

• Normally, ICE would alert the Annunciation House, a local shelter that has taken in tens of thousands of migrants and has several locations across the border city.

• In October, ICE released more than 200 asylum seekers to the streets of El Paso after saying the agency could no longer hold them for more than a few days.
  
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