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Texas Border City Struggles with COVID-19 Outbreak at Migrant Shelter
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Outages could last for days longer in Laredo area
Feb. 17, 2021
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Fountains outside the Laredo Center for the Arts partially freeze, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, as Laredo experiences temperatures in the low 20s following a winter storm.Danny Zaragoza, Staff Photographer / Laredo Morning Times
As tens of thousands of Laredoans entered day three without electricity, and tens of thousands more with no water, it was not made clear when either of these essential services would be restored.
Tony Arce, manager of community affairs for American Electric Power, noted that on Wednesday morning, about 33,000 accounts across Laredo, Encinal, Zapata, Rio Bravo and El Cenizo were without power. By noon, around 2,000 of those accounts had been restored, and several thousand more a few hours later, Arce said. They hope to make more progress as more energy capacity comes online.
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Government and private sector officials in South Texas are happy and willing to accommodate the influx of migrants being released from overwhelmed Border Patrol stations, but they are worried about the repercussions it could have on workers and local communities.
Nongovernmental and religious organizations in Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas told Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose Texas district spans 200 miles of the border, there are concerns about coronavirus testing for migrants and the health of volunteers and employees.
“Those are the questions that the [nongovernmental organizations] are asking themselves, and it s something that I have called the White House several times, had phone calls with people at the White House, to say, ‘Hey, we need for you to understand what s happening here on the border, ” Cuellar said during the meeting in his district.