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Migrants cross U.S. border in record numbers, undeterred by Texas' razor wire and Biden's policies
CBS “News” ^ | December 24, 2023 | BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ (D-CBS)

Posted on 12/24/2023 7:57:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Eagle Pass, Texas — By 6:30 a.m., there were scores of migrants, including parents carrying young children and babies, between a seemingly endless line of razor wire and the Rio Grande, pleading with Texas National Guardsmen to grant them safe passage into the U.S.

"Please, let us through," a woman in the river clamored in Spanish. "Let us pass," another migrant yelled. "There are kids in the water," a man said.

These dire scenes have become a daily occurrence near the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, now the busiest sector for illegal crossings alongside the remote Tucson sector in Arizona, where smugglers have been cutting parts of the border wall to let migrants into the U.S.

Undeterred by the razor wire assembled by Texas state officials, stretches of federal border wall and Biden administration policies designed to reduce illegal entries, migrants have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers in recent days.

"Illegal border crossings have always happened," said Eagle Pass fire chief Manuel Mello, who started as a local firefighter in the 1990s. "Groups of 10, 12 — that was a large group. But now you see 3,000 and 4,000 in one day. I never thought something like this could happen."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; camilomontoyagalvez; illegalaliens; invasion; press; security; texas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What Biden policies?


21 posted on 12/24/2023 10:08:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The illegal entries are undeterred by the Biden Administration.


22 posted on 12/24/2023 10:48:23 AM PST by Flint
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To: Vaduz

They aren’t “managing” it, they’re causing it


23 posted on 12/24/2023 11:18:03 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“There are kids in the water”

You put them there, ese.


24 posted on 12/24/2023 11:19:12 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

It how they causing it by managing it things didn’t happen on it’s own they have a long history of bad management.


25 posted on 12/24/2023 12:48:14 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unusual.

Rats scurrying onto a sinking ship.


26 posted on 12/24/2023 7:25:19 PM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.v v ely)
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