El Paso mayor grabs microphone and walks out of tense immigration press conference - as migrants are spotted emerging from SEWERS to enter the Texas city amid border crisis
The mayor of El Paso,
Texas bizarrely tried to walk out on a press conference Friday after being challenged on the city's worsening migrant crisis - as witnesses claim to have seen immigrants emerging from sewers and disappearing into the night.
Mayor Oscar Leeser was challenged on why the city refused to declare an emergency as they grapple with the daily release of roughly 1,600 migrants to local shelters and streets.
He claimed that it wouldn't make a difference in helping El Paso get any more than the $6 million commitment from FEMA to try and stop the wave coming from the nearby border, which
surged to nearly 2,500 per day last weekend.
However, when the city manager Mario D'Agostino disagreed with him, Leeser began to walk off and tried to take the microphone from him.
It comes as news crews from El Paso local station
KVIA claim to have witnessed 'five or six people' lifting themselves out of a manhole in Segundo Barrio - an area not far from the border.
A local resident told the station that illegal aliens are now using US waste water system via openings at the Rio Grande to get in.
Most recently, local news cameras caught migrants coming out of manholes into the city
Migrants wait to get into a U.S. government bus after crossing the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Monday
Migrants wait in the Central Park of Tapachula City, Mexico Friday evening
El Paso mayor tries to walk out of press conference on immigration with microphone | Daily Mail Online