More than 730,000 people seeking asylum have been seen at the southern border since October alone, making this vast migrant caravan—which is making its way through Mexico to the US border—the largest in over a year.
The masses of migrants, who are mostly from Honduras, Haiti, and Cuba, departed for the United States on Sunday. They traveled more than nine kilometers to reach Alvaro Obregón from Tapachula, the Mexican border city in the south.
With an approximate number of 8,000 individuals en route, this is the biggest migrant caravan to approach the US since June 2022.
However, radical migrant rights activist Luis Garcia Villagran, who is traveling with the group, has issued a warning that by the time it reaches the border, the caravan may swell to 15,000 members, bearing posters that read, “Exodus from poverty.”
He declared, “We won’t stop—we’ll keep walking.”
The increasing number of migrants poses a challenge to the already overstretched border agents in the United States.
Since October 1, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials have informed Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that there have been over 730,000 encounters with migrants at the heavily guarded southern border. This is an astounding figure that surpasses the total population of Denver, Colorado’s capital.
According to Melugin, December is presently on track to break the monthly record for migrant interactions.
According to US Customs and Border Patrol officials, up to 10,000 migrants have been caught daily at the southwest border this month. December has already seen more than 200,000 interactions with migrants overall.
To try to stop the influx of people into the country, US Customs and Border Patrol stopped railway operations at international crossings into Texas last week. It also pulled out air marshals from their jobs to transport illegal migrants to Democrat-led cities.
In a statement at the time, the agency stated, “CBP is continuing to surge all available resources to safely process migrants in response to increased levels of migrant encounters at the southwest border, fueled by smugglers peddling disinformation to prey on vulnerable individuals.”
“CBP is implementing additional measures to surge personnel and address this concerning development, including in collaboration with Mexican authorities, in response to the observation of a recent resurgence of smuggling organizations transporting migrants through Mexico via freight trains.”
However, the influx of migrants has overloaded Border Patrol agents, with migrants outnumbering agents 200 to 1 at one Texas crossing.
The National Border Patrol Council sent a statement to NewsNation stating, “Our government is allowing cartels to control our border because of bad policy; agents are more than willing to sacrifice holidays to protect our fellow Americans, but what we are doing is not enforcing our laws.”
Federal officials and their Mexican counterparts will meet in Mexico City to discuss the flood of migrants into the U.S.
According to the BBC, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated that President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared concerns regarding the “dramatic” increase. The Mexican government has previously stated that it is willing to assist in efforts to stop migrants from crossing its borders.
Republican lawmakers have long called for the construction of a border wall to stop migrants from trespassing on U.S. soil.
Biden’s open-border policy and his welcoming of “asylum-seekers” have already cost America a staggering $451 billion, all while millions of low-income earners suffer the brunt of budget cuts and homelessness.
Yeah, all y’all who voted for FJB in 2020 you got what you wanted?? To the city of Chicago now you want to bitch about a president who could care less about you?? You’re just now finding out what inept POS Joe Biden and his administration is. He’s welcoming in hundreds of thousands migrants to displace you, me, and anyone who lives in America and is an American with lowlifes from other countries who want free shit. Go ahead vote for Ho Joe again. I dare ya.