and the crisis is about to get much worse. including two homeland security memo tame by cnn the biden ministration says the end of covid era policy will likely which ends next week will likely 14,000 crossings per day of title 42 as it s known as left to expire. it s approximately doubled the number of border encounters now the white house. says it is quote, doing what we need to do to prepare for a surge, but it s already underway in places like el paso where the stations are overwhelmed. ed lavender has more. we get the women over to the rescuers. it s a frigid el paso night in john martin is coordinating an outreach team trying to figure out where newly-arrived migrants kev been released on the city s downtown streets they re working with the new arrivals that came in just within the last hour. so there s a lot of confusion right now. to a great extent are probably get myself into trouble. i think confusion is an
stations are overwhelmed. cnn s ed lavanderaa has more. reporter: it is a frigid el paso night and john martin is coordinating an outreach team trying to figure out where newly arrived migrants have been released on the city s downtown streets. they re working with new arrivals that came in within the past hour. there is a lot of confusion right now. to a great extent i ll probably get myself into trouble. confusion is an under statement. reporter: martin helps run a homeless shelter program in el paso. three of the shelters are open to migrants. this family welcome center can fit about 80 people but in recent days they ve taken in as many as 125 per night. the concern we have is at some point you just simply run out of physical space. and we don t want to be in a position to say no, but i think the reality is very close. reporter: in recent days the el paso area has seen a major wave of migrants crossing into the united states. the average number of
title 42 is set to exspire. it s a trump era policy that will expire. el paso is coping with 2,000 migrants arriving every day. that number is expected to increase dramatically next week. cnn s ed lavandera on the ground this morning in el paso. we get the women over to the rescue mission. reporter: it s a frigid mission in el paso and john-martin is coordinating an outreach team trying to figure out where newly arrived migrants have been released on the city s downtown streets. we re working with the new arrivals that came in in the past hour. so there s a lot of confusion now? to a great extent i ll probably get myself into trouble. confusion is an under estimate. reporter: three shelters open to migrants. this family welcome center can fit 80 people but in recent days they ve taken in as many as 125 per night. the concern that we have is at some point you just simply
from cities like el paso, texas. they are expected to receive $6 million of fema funds to address the issue. with more than 2,000 migrants arriving daily, that may not be enough. cnn s ed lavandera is there. reporter: it s a frigid el paso night and john-martin is coordinating an outreach team trying to figure out where newly arrived migrants have been released on the city s downtown streets. they re working with the new arrivals that came in just within the past hour. reporter: so there s a lot of confusion now? to a great extent i ll get myself in trouble. i think confusion is an understatement. reporter: he helps run a homeless shelter. this family welcome center can fit about 80 people, but in recent days they ve taken in as many as 125 per night. the concern that we have is at some point you just simply run out of physical space and we don t want to be in a position
he visited a shelter today struggling to keep up with the demand of the influx of migrants. we can get the women over to the rescue mission. reporter: it s a frigid el paso night and john martin is coordinating an out reach team trying to figure out where newly arrived migrants have been released on the city s downtown streets. they re working with the new arrivals that came in within the past hour. reporter: so there is a lot of confusion right now? to a great extent, i ll get myself in trouble. confusing is an understatement. reporter: he runs a homeless shelter program in el paso. three of the shelters are open to migrants. this welcome center can fit 80 people but in venrecent days they ve taken in as many as 120 per night. the concern that we have is at some point you simply run out of physical space and we don t want to be in a position to say no but i think the reality is very close. reporter: in recent days, the el paso area has seen a major