The invasion at the southern border is ongoing and unrelenting.
‘Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson once said 1,000 in a day would be a ‘crisis’. We are 8x that right now.’
Video captured by Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin in El Paso, Texas, shows a staggering crowd of over 1,000 immigrants illegally crossing from Mexico into the US, one of the largest crossings ever documented.
“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,” Melugin reported Monday, adding, “The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets.”
Wow
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
Developing: More than 1,000 migrants have begun crossing from Juarez into El Paso, one of the largest mass crossings ever. Video from @CorrieBoudreaux 1/ pic.twitter.com/vKGIe2dqkF
— El Paso Matters (@elpasomatters) December 12, 2022
Footage of the massive caravan is so incredible that even Twitter/SpaceX/Tesla/Boring Company CEO Elon Musk was floored, remarking, “Wow”.
On Sunday, Melugin noted footage out of Mexico showed about 20 buses full of migrants being escorted to Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city that borders El Paso, just one day before the massive influx.
This caravan of nearly 20 migrant buses was escorted by Mexican police into Ciudad Juarez before they crossed en masse into El Paso, TX. Thread below. @FoxNews https://t.co/qQGJiq9DQ7
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022
The latest illegal crossings come as several more hordes of migrants have penetrated the US border in recent days, reaching numbers of up to 16,000 migrants encountered by Border Patrol over the past 48 hours.
NEW: The Chief of U.S. Border Patrol reports there have been over 16,000 migrant encounters at the border in the last 48 hours.
That’s an average of 8,000 per day.Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson once said 1,000 in a day would be a “crisis”.
We are 8x that right now.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022
Video from one of the passengers inside one of the migrant buses showing their Mexican police escort, as well as a photo of part of the huge group walking to the border after they were dropped off at NGOs in Ciudad Juarez, MX. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/2s7wGAbJEp
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 12, 2022
“That’s an average of 8,000 per day,” Melugin reported. “Former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson once said 1,000 in a day would be a ‘crisis’. We are 8x that right now.”
According to News Nation’s Ali Bradley, Border Patrol are under order “to process faster” and to release them out of custody “by any means” necessary as Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is set to visit the region Tuesday.
.@SecMayorkas is set to visit the El Paso sector tomorrow. Agents say whenever a “higher up” comes to visit, they “clean house” so it looks like everything is under control.
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) December 12, 2022
Throngs of migrants also penetrated Texas further south in Eagle Pass last week, less than 150 miles from San Antonio, with more than 1,700 illegal crossings occurring in a 24-hour span.
NEW: An enormous single group of nearly 700 migrants crossed illegally into Eagle Pass, TX during the pre dawn hours this morning, almost all of them single adults. Several busloads of migrants had been transported away by Border Patrol by the time our team got on scene. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/clt1WQ52jl
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 8, 2022
Despite the chaos documented at the border, Secretary Mayorkas has continued to tell Congress the border is secure.
The illegal invasion comes as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) last month called for blanket amnesty of illegal aliens in the U.S. because Americans are “not reproducing” enough “workers.”
Flee flee… to where? I guess there’s some land still in the mid west. Feel sorry for my family, my people. I’m old not that old but it don’t look good.