A local fire department in Eagle Pass, a Texas border town, is spending over $21,000 a day dealing with migrant-related emergencies, according to the Texas town’s fire chief.
The Eagle Pass Fire Department has reportedly been receiving about 30 migrant-related EMS calls a day; first responders arrive at either the Rio Grande or the Customs and Border Protection (CPB) nearly every hour in order to deal with the emergencies.
Fire Chief Manuel Mello told Fox News, “There’s not a day where we don’t go to the river’s edge to transport patients, and the city swallows the cost.” Since the department spends about $700 for each call, the migrant emergencies total up to about $21,000 per day.