Migrants are still being welcomed across the Border in droves, with 2,000 to 3,000 a week allowed to legally enter the US at El Paso, Texas and start new lives, according to the city’s data.

Despite the Biden administration’s claims the border is under control, local leaders are gobsmacked by the continued influx and claim nothing has changed since the end of Title 42 in May.

“All of a sudden the surge just comes back and right now we are busier than we’ve ever been,” Blake Burrow of El Paso’s Rescue Mission told The Post Thursday.

His migrant Shelter has erected tents to add bed space for the newly arrived migrants, almost all of whom are from central and South America.

On June 6^th, the Biden administration prematurely claimed victory, trumpeting how illegal border crossings were down 70% compared to the record numbers recorded as Title 42 ended — less than four weeks previously.

“The Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive plan to manage the border went into full effect on May 12, DHS has continued to experience a significant reduction in encounters at the Southwest Border… The Administration’s plan is working as intended,” the Department of Homeland Security stated at the time.

Customs and Border protection (CBP) data released later showed over 99,000 encounters with people trying to illegally cross into the US during June.

Figures from El Paso’s own migrant tracker show more are being released onto its streets now than before the end of Title 42, with over 600 a day on Wednesday and Thursday this week. 

Exclusive photos taken by The Post show mothers and children who have made it across checking into reception desks at shelters, by now a well-oiled process. They then huddle together on makeshift cots cramped next to each other in the well-worn shelters.

El Paso has become a flashpoint during the migrant crisis, leading the city to twice declare states of emergency.

It says it has spent over $20m on migrants so far. An average of 800 people a day are still encountered by border patrol, either surrendering or caught trying to sneak into the country. 

Incredibly, the city is only the fifth busiest port of entry. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) figures for June show it behind Tuscon, Ariz. — where 27,294 people were encountered — then San Diego, Calif. and Del Rio and Laredo in Texas, respectively.

Under the rules of the CBP One app championed by President Biden, 48,000 migrants are given the opportunity to enter the country and have their asylum applications heard each month.

Burrow said the CBP One App was billed as the only legal way for asylum seekers to get vetted and gain entrance to the US at ports of entry, but loopholes in US laws mean illegal immigrants can still apply for asylum, even without an appointment with the app, as the Post exclusively reported.

“The drop may have lasted a week…I’ll tell you where the lull was…back at the first of the year– the first week in January, Biden decides to come to El Paso and the cross border traffic abruptly ended. So they put on that front so that we didn’t have people sleeping on the streets in El Paso,” Burrow stated.

Tough new rules announced in May included migrants being required to apply for asylum in other countries before reaching the US, only arriving by plane and being deported and facing a five year ban for entering the country illegally. However, The Post has witnessed firsthand these measures are not being applied at the border.

Others say with the oppressive heat of the summer ending, they’re preparing for a new surge.

“I believe that we’re on the front-end of a third wave,” said John Martin with the Opportunity Center — a local homeless shelter that takes in migrants, referring to previous border rushes in December last year and May.

“I think this is going to be one of those waves that is going to slowly build to the point that it’s going to become a crisis.”

There’s also no sign of the influx stopping. Quantifying the number of migrants waiting to cross over the border from Mexico is hard, but estimates by various official bodies have consistently been over 100,000 in the area around the border since May.

The true figures for how many migrants are making into the US are likely to be even higher, after the then-CBP head recently admitted to over half a million ‘gotaways’ sneaking over the border this financial year.

The cramped conditions at El Paso include a shelter only meant for 85 people having 158 packed in two nights ago, according to Martin, who says that is a regular occurrence.

A third migrant shelter at Sacred Heart Church gave shelter to 170 women and children, despite only having room for 120.

“If there is a family that comes in, they’ll take mom and the children inside, but they’re asking dad to stay outside,” said Martin.

Those men are then cramped into makeshift areas erected next to the shelters.

El Paso has become a clearing house for migrants from around the region as border crossings are overwhelmed and still can’t deal with the sheer influx.

Border Patrol has been using a separate massive tent city just outside the city to house migrants from other border hot spots who have not been processed and are awaiting a decision as to whether they will be allowed to stay in the country or rejected. The facility holds around 4,000 people at a time.

CBP has not released comprehensive statistics of the number of people rejected from the US or deported since the end of Title 42.

Research shows most migrants quickly move on from border towns and gravitate toward the country’s largest urban areas: New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Chicago.

New York has been overwhelmed by the migrant population with over 57,000 people housed at facilities across the city at the beginning of August and thousands more arriving every week, exasperating Mayor Eric Adams and stretching services to breaking point. Chicago also ran out of shelter spaces months ago and resorted to housing migrants in police buildings.

The Rescue Mission says New York, once the top destination for asylum-seekers, has now been replaced by Denver and Chicago — where migrants think they’re more likely to find work.

“I’m afraid we have already reached the point of saturating the country,” Burrow said.

“The message to the rest of the country is we’re going to have to find some type of longer term safe shelter for the continuing stream of people that we know are coming.

“You can debate all day long, Congress is so dysfunctional that we are not going to get a new immigration law soon.”