With an ominous lack of deceleration, the recent surge of migrants into Texas’ busiest border sector has compelled the agency to halt operations at highway checkpoints.
Virtually all Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector have been diverted from border enforcement duties to grapple with the processing, transportation, and provision of humanitarian care for over 7,000 migrants in custody at local facilities and a makeshift outdoor staging site near Eagle Pass, according to a source within CBP.
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The directive to close the checkpoints, a pivotal element in the agency’s border security strategy, arrives in the wake of more than 5,000 migrants being held in local detention facilities designed for less than 2,000 individuals.
Additionally, over 2,000 migrants find themselves temporarily detained beneath the Camino Real International Bridge II in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. Nearby, the city’s lone other port of entry catering to Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass remains shuttered due to the migrant surge.
The source, lacking authorization to address the media, discloses that 32,000 migrants have crossed into the United States, primarily near Eagle Pass, since the commencement of December.
This sector stands as the second busiest crossing point along the nation’s southwest border, trailing only the Tucson Border Patrol Sector, which has witnessed 40,000 crossings this month.
Local communities, dependent on the ports of entry for legal crossings essential to tourism, shopping, and employment, are now grappling with the repercussions.
The highway checkpoints, acting as the Border Patrol’s final defense line against human smuggling and other cross-border crimes like fentanyl smuggling, are rendered inactive.
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As previously reported by Breitbart Texas, the escalating number of crossings has instilled frustration among local residents and city leaders, alarmed by the ramifications of migrant influxes on the small town of Eagle Pass.
Mayor Rolando Salinas vented his exasperation on social media earlier this month, denouncing the constant influx of migrants as an immigration disaster.
Salinas criticized Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for overlooking Eagle Pass during his visit to Uvalde, Texas—a city 60 miles away from the border region.
Migrant crossings, sustaining at approximately 2,000 per day within the Del Rio Sector, predominantly involve Venezuelans, Hondurans, and Colombians, according to the source.
Most of these migrants arrive at the border city of Piedras Negras via freight trains and promptly cross the Rio Grande into the neighboring city of Eagle Pass.
Law enforcement and military authorities on both sides of the border find themselves impotent to impede or halt the relentless tide of crossings.
