WASHINGTON (TND) -- They are the latest snapshots of the challenges of an influx of migrants in the country.
Surveillance depicts scenes of violence inside the same hotel where police say a 14-year-old was raped.
El Paso's Gateway Hotel was forced to shut down after a lawsuit.
The County Attorney's office said it was "allowing illegal activity" including consuming drugs and gang activity, allegedly from members of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, now declared a foreign terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
At a news conference Monday, Abbott said, "TDA is notorious for their brutal violence and murder and their kidnapping, extortion bribery and trafficking of drugs weapons and even humans."
In Springfield, Ohio, Haitian migrants have relied on a lot of public resources, but are also credited with helping the local economy grow.
In an interview with CNN Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, said, "I met this morning with a number of business people who are employing these Haitians and they tell me they are really essential to them getting the job done. They work hard, they're family-focused."
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 210,000 Haitian and 117,000 Venezuelan migrants have arrived legally, along with 110,000 Cubans and 93,000 Nicaraguans, (for a total of 530,000) arrived legally as part of the Biden administrationCHNV parole program.
Federal agents said they have no way to vet those who are here and mostly rely on the honor system.
At the news conference, Chris Cabrera, spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council, said this:
If they tell us they're from so and so and this is their name, we can't check Venezuela's databases. They're not gonna give us access to it so we have to let them go."
The Biden administration's parole program gives migrants temporary protected status (hoping for confirmation) but the former head of ICE tells us the agency does not have the manpower or resources to deport or even check in on those who came in through the program once their two year time period is up.