Thousands of Venezuelan migrants have flooded into the United States at the Texas-Mexico border, as numbers border-wide have been increasing for weeks.
Thousands of predominantlymoved into Texas and gathered under a nearby bridge on Wednesday, reminiscent of the Haitian migrant crisis two years ago -- just as numbers are again skyrocketing at the border.
Texas troopers told Fox News that their initial count of the number of migrants moving across the water into Eagle Pass on Wednesday was about 4,0000. The migrants gathered under the bridge and were waiting to be processed by Border Patrol, in the hope of being released into the U.S. Many of them told Fox News that they were arriving from Venezuela, with some saying they arrived on a train from Mexico. The Mexican military deployed on the Mexican side of the border, but it did not stop the migrants from crossing.The U.S. has seen a sharp uptick in crossings at the southern border in recent days.
Sources have also told Fox News that there were around 230,000 migrant encounters in August -- Customs and Border Protection has not yet released its official numbers. That 230,000 would be up significantly from over 180,000 in July and 144,000 in June. August’s numbers would mark the highest month in 2023.
Border Patrol sectors have been overwhelmed with the numbers they are seeing, with mass street releases taking place in the last week in Tucson and San Diego. Fox has previously reported how Border Patrol has set up
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