In one of the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years, hundreds of migrants from a predominantly Nicaraguan caravan entered the United States at El Paso on Sunday.
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According to federal authorities, the group of approximately 800 to 1,000 people was one of several in recent days that have flooded border facilities in the region with thousands of new arrivals.
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It was the second time in recent months that large migrant crossings threatened to overwhelm the poor border town's resources and the federal immigration authorities, who are under pressure from the year-round steady influx of migrants.
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Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit organization that provides asylum-seekers with shelter after they have been processed and released by U.S. authorities, stated, "A very large number of people arrived — a huge, huge number."
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In the most recent month for which data is available, October, there were 53,000 encounters between border agents and people attempting to cross from Mexico in the area around El Paso.
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The images of a large number of migrants wading across low sections of the Rio Grande in El Paso immediately brought back memories of previous crises at the southern border, most recently in the small Texas city of Del Rio, where more than 9,000 migrants, most of whom were from Haiti, crowded into squalor in a temporary camp under a bridge along the river last year.
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The scenes gave a likely window into the circumstance that line specialists have been preparing for as soon as the following week, when a pandemic wellbeing strategy known as Title 42 is set to terminate. The strategy, set up by the Trump organization and went on under President Joe Biden under a court request, has permitted U.S. specialists to quickly remove travelers, even those looking for refuge, to assist with forestalling the spread of the Covid.