Incredible border scenes as National Guardsmen flood El Paso and Humvees line banks of Rio Grande in preparation for up to 14,000 migrants a DAY when Title 42 expires Wednesday
- A group of Texas National Guard arrived at the border in El Paso, Texas overnight
- The troops, holding rifles, formed a line of humvees along the border
- Comes after thousands of migrants crossed into El Paso over the last week
- New fencing was put up along the river bank to stop the flow of illegal crossings
A huge Texas National Guard presence arrived at the southern border in El Paso overnight as the Texas city prepares for an even larger influx of migrants once Title 42 ends.
Troops holding rifles stood guard at the U.S. side of the border across from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Tuesday morning backdropped by a line of humvees.
New fencing at the Rio Grande River bank was also erected to stop migrants from crossing with pandemic-era expulsion policy Title 42 just hours away from ending.
A small group of migrants remained on the Mexico side of the border across from El Paso in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
DailyMail.com got the first look at the border with the new bolstered fencing and troop presence:
A huge group of Texas National Guard arrived at the southern border in El Paso, Texas overnight and formed a line of humvees along the U.S. side of the border
The deployment comes after thousands of migrants crossed into El Paso over the last week. There was also new fencing put up along the river bank to stop the flow of illegal immigration
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent members of his state’s National Guard to El Paso on Monday to station themselves along the border amid warning that crossings along the entire border could surge to 14,000 or more every day once Title 42 ends at midnight.
The Texas National Guard has played a huge role in helping with the migrant crisis. The troops have assisted in processing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants every day in border towns like Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley.
The deployment to El Paso comes after a week of higher-than-usual crossing patterns in the western Texas city. The largest-ever caravan included more than 1,000 migrants who crossed into El Paso last weekend.
Migrants have overwhelmed the Border Patrol system in El Paso and overrun the city.
At least several hundreds were forced to sleep on the streets in sub-freezing temperatures after facilities – both government and private – were quickly filled up.
What will happen at the border in the next 24 hours is up-in-the-air after the Supreme Court issued a stay Monday evening on the end of Title 42 – giving the Biden administration until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday to respond.
The deadline is just hours before Title 42 was set to expire at the start of the day at midnight on Wednesday, December 21, just four days before Christmas.
Texas National Guard have played a huge role in mitigating the migration crisis at the southern border – they have helped process at least 1,000 migrants every day
At least 100 troops posted up near the border in El Paso Monday night into Tuesday morning
The National Guard members also set up new fencing overnight right along the riverbank
Title 42 was enacted at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. The health-related policy was meant to stop the spread of COVID-19 from coming over the border into the U.S. – but the policy had the additional benefit to border communities of keeping illegal immigration at bay over the least nearly three years.
With Title 42 in place, Border Patrol and immigration enforcement were able to expel migrants without hearing their asylum claims.
El Paso’s Democratic Mayor Oscar Leeser warned on Monday that there are an estimated 20,000 migrants in Ciudad Juárez prepared to cross into the U.S.
Even with the future of Title 42 unknown, the city is preparing to accommodate a potential rush at the border. El Paso is converting large buildings into shelters as the Red Cross brings in 10,000 cots.
Local officials are also preparing to charter buses and transport migrants to neighboring Texas cities or other states.
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