Nearly 14,000 thousand migrants, or almost half the total of its population, have swamped the city of Eagle Pass, the county seat of Maverick County in Texas, over the past two weeks.
Rep. Tony Gonzalez, who represents the city in Congress, said that another 3,000 are on track to enter Thursday, adding that the Border Patrol estimates that by Friday, 10,000 migrants will have illegally entered Eagle Pass within the current week.
Salinas said the new mob, many of them from Venezuela, has overrun Mission Border Hope, the only migrant shelter in the border city.
Eagle Pass has a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility that can only handle 1,000 people at a time.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the federal government for the arrival of large groups in Eagle Pass, saying Border Patrol agents cut razor wire that had been installed along the river by National Guard members operating under his direction.
A 64-year-old Peruvian undocumented immigrant named Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, who crossed the border in May, was among those who got detained at Eagle Pass.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-22-eagle-pass-texas-declares-state-of-emergency.html
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