(NewsNation) — As you wander through downtown El Paso, you’ll encounter numerous migrants on the sidewalks who find themselves with nowhere to go due to their lack of funds for purchasing bus or plane tickets to reach their final destinations. Currently, 2,000 people are seeking asylum in El Paso daily — up from about 400 per day in August. Nearly all migrants NewsNation spoke to are from Venezuela and have recently crossed into El Paso illegally. The city’s single shelter can only hold a few hundred people per day. Due...

A growing number of border communities are sounding the alarm on the border crisis, as migrants are being dumped onto their streets by Border Patrol, which has maxed out its ability to house recent arrivals. Leaders in El Paso, Texas, warned they would not be able to keep mass groups of migrants from sleeping on the streets — what the city considers worst-case scenario — for much longer. On Thursday alone, some 1,700 migrants entered the US through El Paso in a 24-hour period. In previous weeks, the city had...

If you haven't seen "Blue Beetle" yet, you have a great opportunity to see it for $4 on National Cinema Day. Cinemark locations, AMC Theatres, Flix Brewhouse, and Premiere Cinemas at Bassett Place are offering $4 movies along with exclusive concession deals on Sunday, Aug. 27. How many movie theaters will be part of National Cinema Day? Approximately 30,000 screens across 3,000 locations are expected to take part in the one-day event, according to The Cinema Foundation, the non-profit organizing the event.What movies will be shown in cinemas?Popular cinema chains,...

Cities with the fastest-growing home prices in the El Paso metro area It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic sparked a wave of uncertainty across myriad industries, and no other market has quite felt its impact like that of real estate. The pandemic became a driving force behind the continued real estate boom, with high demand for vacation homes and a limited supply of housing that prompted buyers and investors to bid up prices for affordable properties, causing home prices to skyrocket. Since then, increasing mortgage rates have slowed...