What we know about the migrant caravan waiting at the Texas-Mexico border

[TexasTowelie]

By Julián Aguilar and Miguel Gutierrez Jr., Texas Tribune


EAGLE PASS -- For the sixth-straight day since arriving at the Texas-Mexico border, roughly 1,600 Central American migrants intent on seeking asylum in the U.S. are playing a frustrating waiting game in Mexico.

The migrants, who are mostly Honduran, are being housed in a former warehouse in Piedras Negras — and being guarded by Mexican law enforcement — while they wait to be let into the U.S.

But U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are only able to process about 20 of the migrants a day, CNN reported, meaning progress is exceedingly slow, and tensions are high. Only a limited number of the migrants who have been given humanitarian visas by the Mexican government can leave the make-shift shelter; some others have asked to be returned to their home countries, the AP reported.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has joined the U.S. Border Patrol in stationing agents in Eagle Pass, Texas — on the banks of the north side of the Rio Grande. They're meant to deter any migrants who might choose to cross the river instead of waiting their turn in Mexico.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/02/08/migrant-caravan-eagle-pass-border-patrol/


U.S. border patrol cars are seen through the fence of the bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras Negras, Mexico, near the banks of Rio Grande, on Feb. 7, 2019. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

[Historic NY]

1. Twenty a day is designed to disillusion them....

really with all the employees he has out there they can't. Funny how easy its was to take hundreds into detention at a time.

[2naSalit]

2. Simply amazing, isn't it?