On Sunday night, a massive caravan of over 1,000 migrants illegally crossed the U.S. southern border into El Paso, Texas.
“A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin announced on Twitter Monday morning. “The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets.”
BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/ewUQX757Lt
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 12, 2022
According to Melugin, the migrants were part of a larger caravan of nearly 20 buses full of migrants that had been escorted by Mexican police into Ciudad Juarez before crossing the border into El Paso throughout the weekend.
“An enormous mass of hundreds of migrants have just crossed illegally into El Paso, TX,” Melugin said Sunday evening. “There is now a massive line of migrants waiting to be taken into custody by Border Patrol, and more are coming. El Paso sector had over 2,600 crossings in 24 hrs Fri-Sat.””
“Before this mass of migrants crossed, Mexican police escorted nearly 20 buses full of migrants into Ciudad Juarez, the MX city across from El Paso, and released them at multiple NGOs,” he added. “The migrants then walked from the NGOs to the river, & crossed illegally into El Paso.”
Before this mass of migrants crossed, Mexican police escorted nearly 20 buses full of migrants into Ciudad Juarez, the MX city across from El Paso, and released them at multiple NGOs. The migrants then walked from the NGOs to the river, & crossed illegally into El Paso. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/KgE2HUVbej
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) December 12, 2022
The news comes as the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border continues to worsen, with border agents encountering a record 2,378,944 migrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border in fiscal year 2022 – dwarfing the previous record set in 2021 of 1,734,686 migrant encounters.
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