- Hundreds of migrants near El Paso, Texas, cross concertina wire placed by the Texas National Guard
- Before the breach, migrants camped south of the border wall, on the north side of the fence.
- The Texas National Guard pushed them south of the fence on Wednesday, until migrants rushed en masse toward the border wall on Thursday.
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Hundreds of migrants broke through the razor-wire fence in El Paso, Texas, today, overpowering border agents who tried to push them back.
“Hundreds of migrants were pushed south of the concertina wire in the middle of the night by the Texas National Guard,” said the border snapper.
“A few hours later, they breached the accordion again and rushed toward the border wall in El Paso, Texas.”
The migrants are already in the United States because they have already crossed the international border, located a few hundred yards south of the border wall.
Texas state troopers move towards a fence after migrants broke through barbed wire to enter the United States on Thursday.
A migrant checks her bag after members of the Texas National Guard burned clothing used by migrants to break barbed wire and a fence to enter the United States and surrender.
Migrants violate infrastructure set up by the Texas National Guard on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 21, 2024.
Migrants stand on infrastructure that was breached by migrants on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 21, 2024.
Male migrants are escorted south behind a barrier by the Texas National Guard on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, March 21, 2024.
A migrant sits on a fence after a group of migrants forced his way through by breaking barbed wire and a fence.
Many of these asylum-seeking migrants chose not to immediately surrender, as it is a well-known location to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents, as they were caught in limbo due to SB4. from Texas.
The controversial law authorizes state and local police in the Lone Star State to arrest illegal immigrants, a right that has been reserved only for federal agents like the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The law, which has been repeatedly blocked in recent days by federal courts, was then allowed to take effect for a few hours Tuesday, before being blocked again Tuesday evening.
Legal whiplash left many migrants uncertain about what would happen to them if they surrendered to Border Patrol.
Tension had been rising for two days as the camp grew.
Known as “Gate 36,” it is a popular drop-off location for migrants seeking asylum in El Paso, Texas. Migrants regularly cross this area, seek out Border Patrol and surrender to U.S. authorities
Hundreds of people were camped in no-mans land north of the river that separates the United States and Mexico, the Rio Grande.
The river is the international border, not the border wall.
On Wednesday evening, the Texas National Guard rounded up hundreds of migrants and forced them south of the barbed wire fences still present in the United States.
On Thursday morning, the migrants climbed the fence in coordination and ran toward the border wall in apparent surrender.
Migrants camp along the Concertina Wire on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande on the day the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on Texas’ motion to lift the block on its SB4 immigration law which would allow state officials to arrest migrants suspected of being in the country illegally