Shocking moment crowd of 100 Migrants Storm Across Rio Grande, leaving Border Control Guards with no choice but to Cut Razor Wire and let them into Eagle Pass after four-hour stand-off in searing 101-degree heat
- Eagle Pass, Texas , has been overwhelmed with migrants in recent days, with more than 7,500 flooding into the tiny town on Monday and Tuesday alone
Cheering and holding hands as they wade through waist-deep water, this is the astonishing moment a group of 100 migrants stormed across the Rio Grande.
The crowd surged past Border Patrol boats that were trying to stop them before being allowed through a razor wire thicket on the US side after a standoff that lasted for more than four hours.
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This is the astonishing moment a group of 100 migrants stormed across the Rio Grande
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Some of the babies were carried by National Guard and Border Patrol personnel who took the infants from their exhausted mothers as they struggled up the bank
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Eagle Pass, Texas , has been overwhelmed with migrants in recent days with more than 7,500 flooding into the tiny town of 28,000 people on Monday and Tuesday alone
The 100-strong crowd arrived in Piedras Negras on the Mexican side early on Saturday morning before surging past Border Patrol boats and wading across the Rio Grande to cross into Eagle Pass.
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