At least 100 migrants overtook the National Guard from Texas in El Paso and they broke the barrier barbs that leave a new scene of chaos on the border, militarized and armored.

The immigrants, protected by winter clothing and gloves, overcame barriers set up by the state of Texas at the border and surrendered to the National Guard team.

While the other group escaped them pushes already in the race for implementation flight to the USA.

The scenes Thursday afternoon are yet another example of a worsening immigration crisis in the midst of a legal fight between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden, who has the power to control the border and set customs and immigration policies. . .

The National Guard is building a new wall of fences and spikes.

National Guard troops in Eagle Pass on Thursday built a new wall of fences and barbed wire along the Rio Grande River. waiting for new arrivals of immigrants.

Backpacks, shoes and torn clothes were stuck in the wire wall.

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Even this afternoon, the fingerprints of almost daily tearing through the dirt under the wire fences to be able to enter Maverick County, risking detention by the Border Patrol (CBP) or the endless miles of mesquite ranches, bush full of thorns, were visible. .

After the standoff, the Texas National Guard returned the migrants to Mexican territory.

Abbott’s anti-immigrant law

Abbott’s government is pushing to enforce the state’s immigration law, called SB4, which makes it a crime to enter the state illegally from Mexico and imposes harsher penalties on repeat offenders, drawing criticism from President Andres Manuel’s government. López Obrador and has pro-immigrant groups wary of racial discrimination along the border.

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A federal appeals court is keeping enforcement of the law suspended after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to wait for a lower court to rule on it, and after several pauses that created widespread confusion between law enforcement and migrant support associations.

A panel of judges on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which urgently convened Wednesday, appeared divided on several issues related to SB4, such as the possibility that Texas authorities could return immigrants to Mexico, which is now the preserve of the federal government. government.

Governor Abbott asked that the law remain in effect until the Supreme Court’s conservative majority rules on its constitutionality.

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Meanwhile, migrants wait on the other side of the river in uncertainty will they be processed as they are now at a border patrol station, or will they be treated like criminals.

On the other side more and more barbed wire awaits them. (EFE)