A large group of more than 100 migrants scrambled across the border as dawn broke on Eagle Pass, Texas — just hours after former President Trump won the 2024 election with a vow to secure the borders and crack down on illegal immigration.
Dozens of illegal border crossers — mostly Central and South American migrants, along with two others from Africa — showed up in the US soaked after wading through the Rio Grande River.
Border Patrol sources say migrants groups are trying to rush into the US before Trump takes office and enacts much tougher policies for illegal immigrants.
There were also more than a dozen unaccompanied children, including two toddler siblings, whom border agents wrapped together in a mylar blanket to keep them warm.
Children who arrive at the border alone are exempt from the current restrictions on applying for asylum, which the Biden-Harris administration enacted earlier this year.
They means they will likely be released after they’re transferred to the Health and Human Services Department.
After crossing, the group was quickly intercepted by border agents and then transported on a bus for processing.
On the campaign trail, Trump has vowed to take swift action to secure the southern border and to carry out a mass deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
During his victory speech early Wednesday morning, Trump pledged to “fix” and “seal up” US borders, while allowing legal immigration.
“We’re going to have to seal up those borders and we’re going to have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in, but we have to let them come back in, but they have to come back in legally,” said Trump.
Meanwhile, south of the border, a new caravan of 3,000 migrants has formed in Mexico. The caravan marched out of the southern Mexico town of Tapachula Tuesday with countless men, women and children in tow.
“If Trump wins, they are gonna try to get here before he’s in office,” a source said. “It’s one last f–k you to America.”
Another source added: “We knew that was coming because they want to get in before ‘orange bad man’ wins.”
More than 10 million migrant encounters have been recorded under the Biden-Harris administration, according to federal data.
The highest number of crossings in a single fiscal year took place between October 2021 and September 2022, when more than 2.2 million migrants crossed illegally, per federal data.