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Texas law enforcement officials and the National Guard were stationed along a section of the southern border in El Paso overnight to prevent a line of Venezuelan migrants from charging the barriers.
Shocking footage and drone footage emerged showing a trench of migrants camping on the Juárez, Mexico, side of the southern border on Sunday night, huddled around campfires and wrapped in blankets.
Republicans and border hawks are increasingly angry about the lack of action to address the border migration crisis as illegal crossings continue to rise.
Military humvees were parked every few meters along the Texas side of the border to hold the line as migrants attempted to cross the barbed wire and enter the US illegally.
Todd Benson of the Center for Immigration Studies posted video of the scene in X, noting that Texas forces began firing pepper balls to disperse groups of immigrants trying to attack the border wall.
Migrants shelter near the barbed wire fence between Mexico and a border crossing near El Paso, Texas, while Texas law enforcement and the National Guard stand watch on the other side.
On Monday morning, migrants, mostly Venezuelans, lined up in front of the border wall to become border agents after passing through the barbed wire fences.
A Mexican immigration official explained to Benson that the immigrants “tried to break through and cut the fence” of barbed wire to gain access to the U.S. side of the border.
“They make a hole and pass through,” he said in a video where migrants crawled through barbed wire, some losing their clothing in the process due to the dangerous fences.
The latest incident comes after hundreds of migrants broke through barbed wire last month near El Paso and charged the border in a dramatic confrontation with members of the Texas National Guard.
The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested and charged 221 immigrants for rioting and criminal conduct, Benson notes in a threat posted on X, formerly Twitter.
He also said that after a tense night, it appears that on Monday morning authorities began allowing migrants, mostly Venezuelans, to return across the border.
“Last night the Texas line at Juarez-El Paso held up Venezuelans camping behind the concertina wire,” Benson wrote along with drone footage of a portion of the border in El Paso.
“They still haven’t given up here in Juarez, even though Texas forces are now firing pepper balls to break up the banzai immigrant charges through the Texas fortifications at Gate 36,” he added along with a video of sheltered immigrants standing near the knife. wire fencing.
Clothes and other items are caught in dangerous barbed wire that migrants cross to reach the border wall and cross illegally into the US.
Texas State Police walk toward a fence after hundreds of immigrants broke through barbed wire to enter the United States illegally last month.
A few hours later, Benson posted another video showing a line of immigrants along the border wall appearing to prepare to surrender to immigration authorities.
“It’s not clear what happened, but someone is letting them in again,” he wrote, “through or around the Texas fortifications here in Juárez, and of course, they keep coming regardless of what Texas is doing.”
Many asylum-seeking immigrants in this area chose not to turn themselves in immediately after crossing the barrier between the United States and Mexico because they were trapped in limbo due to a Texas SB4 law.
The controversial law in the Lone Star State gives state and local police permission to arrest, detain and remove illegal immigrants, a right that has only been reserved for federal officials such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
The law, which has been banned several times in recent days by federal courts, was allowed to take effect for a few hours Tuesday, before being blocked again Tuesday night.