Countless migrants have lined up on freight trains headed for the US through Eagle Pass, Texas, apparently hoping to board a ship and ride to the border, according to reports.
The migrants were filmed near the Mexican town of Piedras Negras, according to shocking footage obtained by Fox News, located just across the border from the main US port of entry at Eagle Pass.
A seemingly endless line of migrants laden with luggage and children raised their arms and cheered as the train rumbled along at a steady clip. No migrants were seen jumping overboard in the footage.
Hopping trains has become a common strategy for migrants traveling far from their homes in South and Central America to reach the US border more quickly and with far less effort than walking.
It has become so common that in September Mexico’s largest transport line, Ferromex, halted operations on 60 northbound trains as an “unprecedented” number of migrants boarded the vehicles.
The practice escalated in September, Ferromex said, even leading to “half a dozen regrettable cases of injury or death” among migrants.
A huge line of immigrants disappears around the curve of the Fox News railroad
The Eagle Pass Port of Entry has also been forced to reduce normal border operations in the face of a surge in migrants.
On December 4, one of the two bridges crossing the Rio Grande into the US from Mexico was closed so that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials could pool their resources in the face of a record arrival of migrants.
In addition to the closure of Eagle Pass, three other ports of entry across California and Arizona have also been closed “indefinitely.”
CBP figures from October alone show 52,000 migrants have presented themselves to agents at border crossings seeking to enter the US – but an additional 189,000 have been found trying to enter illegally along the hundreds of miles of remote desert border between stations.
Migrants have boarded trains as they head to the border from South and Central America REUTERS
Fiscal year 2023, which ends on September 30, saw the highest number of people apprehended trying to cross into the US since officials began tracking in 1960 — a staggering 2.4 million people.
Those numbers show no signs of slowing down.
On December 5, the day after the Eagle Pass closure began, 12,000 people were found trying to cross the southern border – a single-day record.
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