A large group of more than 100 migrants crossed the border at dawn at Eagle Pass, Texas — just hours after former President Trump won the 2024 election with a pledge to secure the borders and crack down on illegal immigration.
Dozens of illegal border crossers – Mostly Central and South American immigrantsAlong with two other people from Africa – arrived in America drenched after crossing the Rio Grande River.
Border Patrol sources say groups of migrants are trying to cross into the US before Trump takes office and enacts stricter policies for illegal immigrants.
There were also more than a dozen unaccompanied children, including two young siblings, whom border agents wrapped in Mylar blankets to keep warm.
Children who arrive at the border alone are exempt from existing restrictions on applying for asylum, which the Biden-Harris administration imposed earlier this year.
They mean he will likely be released after being transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.
After crossing, the group was immediately stopped by border agents and then taken to a bus for processing.
During the campaign, Trump has vowed to take swift action to secure the southern border and the mass deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
During his victory speech Wednesday morning, Trump promised to “fix” and “seal” the US borders while allowing legal immigration.
“We have to seal those borders and we have to let people come into our country. “We want people to come back, but we have to let them come back, but they have to come back legally.”
Meanwhile, south of the border, A new caravan of 3,000 migrants Made in Mexico. The caravan left the city of Tapachula in southern Mexico on Tuesday with countless men, women and children.
“If Trump wins, they will try to get here before he comes into office,” one source said. “This is the last time I see you in America.”
Another source said: “We knew it was going to happen because they wanted to get in before the ‘orange bad guy’ won.”
More than 10 million migrant encounters have been recorded under the Biden-Harris administration, according to federal data.
The highest number of crossings in a single fiscal year occurred between October 2021 and September 2022, when more than 2.2 million migrants crossed illegally. per federal data,
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