EAGLE PASS: Almost every day at the US-Mexico border, uniformed American officers reinforce razor wire fences that another group of American officials...
A migrant from Venezuela prays as he waits for a US Border Patrol agent to cut the razor wire after he crossed the Rio Grande to Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 24, 2023. AFPPIX: Almost every day at the US-Mexico border, uniformed American officers reinforce razor wire fences that another group of American officials has just cut.
“It’s not that we are opening it for them to enter,“ one Customs and Border Patrol agent tells AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.CBP officers regularly take wirecutters to the tangled lengths of razor wire when they see tragedy unfolding just feet away.
A short time later, Texas National Guard soldiers from Operation Lone Star come through to patch the gap.'Frustrating' He finally joined a group of around 300 people waiting at the wire, hoping for some kind of solution. When the group had gone, soldiers from Operation Lone Star -- whose terms of engagement do not allow them to physically restrain would-be migrants -- begin to remove the scraps of fabric and roll out new wire to replace crushed lengths.
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