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"We don't have any resources at all to house these people," said Douglas Mayor Donald Huish.

The officials said Customs and Border Protection has been overwhelmed with arrivals and began releasing the migrants into small communities such as Douglas and Bisbee on Wednesday and continued Thursday. Some were dropped off at a bus stop outside a Bisbee supermarket.

Douglas is a city of about 16,000 people on Arizona's border with Mexico. Dannels said the migrants entered the U.S. at other locations along the U.S.-Mexico border, but didn't specify where or why remote Cochise County was chosen as the location to release them.

Officials said many migrants are being transported out of the area to a Tucson shelter on buses paid for by Pima County with federal grant funding.

When contacted, CBP did not address specific questions about why Cochise County was chosen for releases, but said it is "working according to plan and as part of our standard processes" to get people quickly out of detention facilities before they become overcrowded.

It said it aims to "safely and efficiently screen and process migrants to place them in immigration enforcement proceedings consistent with our laws."

Typically, asylum-seekers who are allowed to remain in the U.S. are sheltered for a few days by nonprofit organizations that then help them make contact with and travel to stay with relatives in other parts of the country pending their immigration court dates.

But those organizations don't exist in remote areas like Cochise County.

Yuma County, located on Arizona's border with Mexico in the far west, has encountered similar problems in 2021 when Border Patrol officials released migrants there when facilities became overwhelmed.

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