Title 42 ends: Texas school district seeking to help ‘mitigate’ expected influx of migrants
Jenny Goldsberry
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A school district in Brownsville, Texas, is seeking out ways to help “mitigate” the expected increase in migrants at its door after the expiration of Title 42.
Brownsville Independent School District’s Board of Education will be holding a special meeting on May 15 to recommend approval for the “establishment of services and/or a lease to aid in the safe processing of migrant families in our community.”
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Schools within the Brownsville Independent school district have their last day of classes on May 30, which will leave the buildings largely empty for the summer. The school board’s plan to use the school buildings is in collaboration with the City of Brownsville, according to the meeting’s agenda. The Washington Examiner has reached out to the school district for comment.
BISD Special Meeting Agenda
Superintendent Rene Guiterrez filed the action on May 11. In the filing, Guiterrez claimed that the project would come “at no cost to the District” because of a “Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Brownsville” and itself. The Washington Examiner has reached out to the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for confirmation.
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Brownsville saw more than 15,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, illegally cross the river near Brownsville during the last week in April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. During the first two weeks of April, there were 1,700 migrants. The city’s CBP station was established in 1918 in light of Chinese immigration at the time, and covers 25 miles of the Rio Grande river.
Texas National Guard soldiers have rehearsed “a tactical movement exercise” that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) claims is “the fastest response to a mass migration event” at 30 minutes. President Joe Biden does not plan to send any more active-duty soldiers past the 1,500 troops that are already on the Mexican border.