by Alex Hammer at Daily Mail
- Filmed on Monday, the clip shows a massive procession of a several hundred migrants standing on a stopped train in Mexico, just outside Eagle Pass, Texas
- The crisis reached new highs last week, when Mexican officials revealed that some 11,000 migrants reached the Mexican border with the US in one day alone
- Still, migrants continue to utilize the more than 700 remaining freighters – known as The Beast – a fact demonstrated by new footage
New video shows hundreds of migrants cheering and waving the Venezuelan flag atop a US-bound cargo train – a continuation of scenes over the weekend when more than 5,000 were seen boarding another freighter to get into the country.
Filmed on Monday, the clip shows a slightly smaller procession of several hundred migrants standing on a stopped train near Eagle Pass – a Texas border town whose mayor Saturday said it had reached ‘breaking point’ due to outsized daily arrivals.
Accepting more than 2,000 per day, the city is the second in the state to say it has reached capacity – with El Paso, another common migrant stop, now also overrun.
There, as well as Eagle Pass, asylum seekers are sleeping on the streets due to overcapacity – as thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants continue to cross illegally before willingly turning themselves in to Border Patrol.
The crisis reached new highs last week, when Mexican officials revealed that some 11,000 migrants reached the Mexican border with the US in a day alone – leading the country to strike a deal with the US to deport migrants from its own border cities.
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