By 6:00 am this morning, the town of Eagle Pass, Texas (pop. 28,130 in 2020), had grown by 1,500 since midnight. That is the number of illegal migrants entering the town from Mexico, a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande.
The surge had continued throughout the weekend, as hundreds came across, hour by hour. The numbers were so extreme that even the Mexican military, which generally acts as facilitators for the illegals, held back another 1,200, who will have to wait a few hours before illegally crossing into the U.S.
The influx smashed the existing record for a single day, set just last Friday at 1,300. It caused the local migrant shelter — already at three times its capacity at 3,000 — to close its doors to further admissions. U.S. officials moved some of the newcomers to a non-government shelter, the Mission Border Hope, which was also full to capacity. That shelter, for its part, began expelling migrants who lacked funds for bus tickets out of the area. (Bus far from Eagle Pass to San Antonio, 150 miles away, is about $50 per person.) Those kicked out were simply let loose upon the city streets, which were — according to Breitbart News — “awash with migrants walking aimlessly, asking residents for a ride or money to purchase meals.”
Breitbart asked U.S. officials what their plans were to deal with the crisis, but no immediate response was forthcoming.
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