SAN ANTONIO (WOAI/KABB) — The crisis at the southern border may deepen. A giant caravan of migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries is heading toward the U. S. -Mexico border.
The caravan, estimated at about 6,000 people, departed on Christmas Eve from the city of Tapachula.
This comes as the U. S. recently closed several border crossings due to a sharp surge. The comforts for space immigrants have been outweighed by the numbers.
Law enforcement along the border now desperately needs federal help.
U. S. Customs and Border Protection said it needed more investment to enforce sanctions imposed on those crossing the border illegally.
“I don’t think we’ve passed a significant immigration bill since Reagan’s second term, so it’s not easy. But we’re working hard to get an outcome because the country wants it and wants it soon,” the Republican senator said. Mitch McConnell.
Although little progress has been made on this factor this year, many are hopeful that Congress will address it next year.
According to Congressman Tony Gonzales, the surge of migrants is straining border communities and now has residents scrambling to find enough resources for themselves.
“My district is 70% Hispanic,” Gonzales said. I’m starting to hear first- and second-generation Americans say I don’t need those other people in my country. Surely it’s annoying. Because when they go to the supermarket”
This December, as many as 10,000 migrants were arrested a day at the Southwest U.S. border.