This is a story that you have been covering forever.
What are you seeing today?
And give us a context of what is happening today
versus what your experience shows you,
Jose. Well, for a lot of us who are in
Eagle Pass right now reporting,
we can say this is the largest group of migrants
we've ever seen in Eagle Pass in the years that
we've been reporting in this area.
Now for context, I think we need to understand that
a lot of migrants were in Mexico for the last
few months or years.
And in late October, we saw large caravans move through
Mexico.
So many of us expected this new surge at some
point either in November or at some point in December.
And we are now seeing this.
We're seeing large groups of migrants that are arriving not
just here.
It's happening in Arizona. It's happening in parts of California.
It's happening in different parts of the border.
Again, these are migrants that had been in Mexico for
a long time.
There's issues in Mexico, Jose,
as you know, and there's Mano Lopez,
although the president is reaching the end of his presidency,
the federal immigration agency, they're going through so many issues
that they've essentially stopped policing many of the areas in
the country.
I've spoken to my contacts in South Mexico who say
many of the migrants are telling each other now is
the time,
time to go to the US Mexico border.
So you look at this field,
we have about 2000 or more migrants over on the
right hand side.
We still see lines of migrants that are still arriving.
Everything down this, like there's lines going down the river
of migrants that just cross and are being brought into
the field and then you have the people that slept
here overnight. By the way,
this was like this on Monday.
It was like this on Tuesday.
It's still a large number of migrants because as they're
being processed,
more are coming in. You see them holding those aluminum
Mylar blankets to try to stay warm in the cold
weather.
And then over on the right hand side,
Jose, we have CBP officers trying to process them as
fast as possible.
What you see here are the groups that are getting
ready to be loaded on to buses.
You mentioned that the Federal Bureau
of Detention is now helping.
Here we go. This is one of the buses that
that is being used to transport these migrants.
So you have an entire system
being created here in this holding area,
Jose, where essentially it's it's too big for them to
do it anywhere else.
So they chose this field and and this is what's
happening,
Authorities of course overwhelmed. Now we also know that
the bridge that's used for the railroads has been shut
down here and in El Paso.
We're told that the agents that normally police the railroads
crossing into the US are now focusing on processing migrants.
So that's happening here in Texas.
Again, Jose, as I mentioned,
we have situations like this and other parts of the
border.
Arizona is also overwhelmed with the number of migrants.
So important to keep in mind that 10s of thousands
of migrants are in Mexico.
They had been waiting for months to make their way.
N something changed in Mexico with the immigration system,
with a lack of enforcement,
the government there, federal authorities focusing right now on other
issues that are happening in the country.
And many migrants are now arriving.
And we don't know when this search might stop.
We know that some of these trains have stopped crossing
into the US and usually a lot of them come
on these trains,
so perhaps that might slow down the flow of migrants.
But what we know is that there's still many more
in Mexico attempting to make it to the US Mexico
border.
Jose.