Over 1,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the El Paso sector.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin posted footage of the winding group fording the Rio Grande.
According to Melugin, the migrants could be traced to a series of buses that recently traveled to Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the river just south of El Paso. Melugin says the city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets.
In recent months, Governors Doug Ducey (R-AZ) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) have implemented measures to secure their states’ borders. However, Ducey’s improvised border barrier has faced significant opposition. The resistance to his wall made of shipping containers intensified over the weekend when the border county Sheriff David Hathaway pledged to halt its construction if it ever extended into his jurisdiction.
Hathaway told a local television affiliate, “The area where they’re placing the containers is entirely on federal land, on national forest.” The sheriff added that Ducey’s makeshift wall isn’t on “not state land, it’s not private land, and the federal government has said this [is] illegal activity.”
Several other border county sheriffs have expressed their support for Ducey’s initiative, which he has promised to carry on until he leaves office next month.
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