Hundreds of protesters gathered for prayer-filled rallies in three border states on Saturday to demand an end to illegal immigration – curbing a cross-country convoy calling itself “God’s Army” as it rolls from Virginia to Texas this week.
“This is a national security crisis,” organizer Scotty Saks told about 200 people in San Ysidro, Calif., at the first of three “Take Our Border Back” demonstrations in the Golden State, Arizona and Texas.
“We have a human trafficking problem at the border on a scale we never imagined,” he said.
“The United States is the largest sponsor of human trafficking, and that is not something we are proud of.”
In Texas, spectators at a rally at Cornerstone Children’s Ranch in Quemado waved American flags and banners supporting former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign.
About 300 vehicles — from 18-wheelers and buses to motorcycles — had joined the “Back to Our Border Convoy” by the time it arrived at the Texas site late Friday, the Kinney County sheriff told NewsNation.
Hundreds more cars arrived on Saturday, filling the country roads outside the farm.
A protester on a motorcycle arrives at the Take Our Border Back rally in Texas Saturday. AP About 300 buses, trucks and other vehicles joined the “Take Our Border Back” convoy for the final day of its journey. James Keivom Protesters demanded an end to the border crisis on Saturday at rallies in Texas (above), California and Arizona. James Keivom
The rally was held just 500 feet from the Rio Grande and 10 miles north of Eagle Pass, a border security flashpoint that has been overrun by illegal immigrants in recent months.
The grassroots group bills itself as “a peaceful gathering of Americans of all political classes and ethnicities … praying to end the immigration crisis.”
His GiveSendGo fundraising campaign has raised nearly $165,000 to cover gas, permits, rally stage and other expenses.
Protesters wave flags demanding an end to the border crisis at Cornerstone Children’s Farm in Texas. James Keivom
“We’re just regular people, farmers, ranchers, retired police officers,” organizer Kim Yeater told The Post Tuesday.
“Not a crazy conspiracy theorist.”
But the turnout was far smaller than the 700,000 protesters Yeater said he expected.
More than 2.4 million people were found at the US-Mexico border last fiscal year, according to the Department of Homeland Security, breaking the record of 302,000 in December.
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