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PHOTOS: 600 Migrants Enter West Texas Border Town in One Day
2021-12-20
[Breitbart] Despite a law enforcement presence on both sides of the Rio Grande, a CBP source says more than 600 migrants were apprehended after entering the United States on Thursday.

The source says the arrests in Eagle Pass accounted for more than 50 percent of the apprehensions within the Del Rio Sector that day.

A rescue team in Mexico, “Grupo Beta,” patrolled the river periodically in an airboat as troops with the Mexican National Guard watched. The Mexican National Guard, known as “La Guardia Nacional,” had little apparent impact.

On the United States side of the Rio Grande, Border Patrol agents performed similar marine activities.

Texas National Guard troops standing along a makeshift wall of shipping containers watched over the river and took migrants into custody. Soldiers waited with family units until Border Patrol transports arrived.

One unaccompanied migrant child walked through a gap in the Texas border wall currently under construction. The wall is nearing completion, however, gates along roadways have yet to be installed. A Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol trooper spotted the youth and turned the migrant over to Border Patrol.

In a revolving door fashion, Border Patrol agents made several trips to the Eagle Pass International Bridge to return mostly single adult migrants to Mexico under the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The source says these scenarios are playing out daily and have challenged the agency’s ability to keep up with the constant flow.

The migrant crossings are occurring in the downtown area and more remote ones around the city. The constant flow is creating a sense of frustration among residents by the lack of a coherent federal response.

Recently, nearly 200 migrants crossed the Rio Grande near Normandy, Texas, in one single event north of Eagle Pass. The larger groups are mostly Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.
Related:
Eagle Pass: 2021-12-02 East African, Middle Eastern Migrants Apprehended in Texas near Border
Eagle Pass: 2021-11-29 Large Migrant Group Rushes Border in West Texas
Eagle Pass: 2021-11-18 Group of 225 Migrants Apprehended in West Texas Border Town
Related:
Del Rio Sector: 2021-12-07 Foreigners illegally entering U.S. come from 106 different countries, Border Patrol says
Del Rio Sector: 2021-12-02 East African, Middle Eastern Migrants Apprehended in Texas near Border
Del Rio Sector: 2021-11-29 Large Migrant Group Rushes Border in West Texas
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  Is it "guts" for fat mama's brown tit to be replaced with Uncle Sugar's old, white, increasingly shriveled one?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-20 09:54  

#3  If the migrant is a woman with a child and has walked part-way then let her in. We need people with guts.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-12-20 09:44  

#2  kneecapping works
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-20 00:17  

#1  What's to stop TX Gov from deploying the National Guard and issuing shoot to kill orders? Seems that would put quite the dent in this matter.
Posted by: Raj   2021-12-20 00:15  

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