A freight train packed to the brim with migrants has been spotted heading to Mexico’s border with the United States, as it could add hundreds more to the crisis facing border towns amid the overwhelming influx of migrants.
Amazing footage was captured of the FerroMex train as the locomotive left the central Mexican city of Zacatecas with hundreds in tow and headed north on the 750-mile journey towards the United States
Container after container could be seen filled with migrants enjoying a leisurely ride as the freight train whizzed by.
The passengers on board whistled and cheered as the group hitched a ride. Some of the passengers could even be seen hanging out on the sides of the train.
The train was on its way to the southern border of the USA – where around 2 million migrants have already reached America in the southwest in 2023. Border cities have been devastated by the influx due to the Biden administration’s lax border policies.
A freight train packed to capacity with migrants was captured on video traveling at full speed toward Mexico’s border with the United States
The footage shows the FerroMex train departing from the central Mexican city of Zacatecas and embarking on a 750-mile journey north toward the United States
The train’s containers were filled with migrants, offering them a comfortable ride as the train sped by
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FOX News sources capture a FerroMex train full of migrants from Zacatecas making its way to our southern border… cheering and clearly not listening to the message: “Don’t come.”@FoxNews pic.twitter.com/YflMwXrWqu– Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) September 17, 2023
The migrants seemed to have prepared for a long journey. Many had erected tents and tarps over parts of the containers to protect themselves from the elements.
The video comes as the latest figures from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol show an increase in the number of migrant encounters at the southern border.
There were nearly 184,000 migrant crossings into the U.S. in July, compared to 144,000 border patrol encounters in June.
Although the numbers increased month over month, they are still well below previous years, when more than 200,000 people entered the United States from Mexico in 2021 and 2022.
The US border has seen a surge of migrants from all over the world, not just from Central and South American countries such as Venezuela and Mexico. There were migrants from China and other countries who entered through the porous southern border.
The video comes as recent U.S. Customs and Border Patrol data shows an increase in migrant encounters at the southern border between June and July of this year
Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. gather from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Saturday near a border fence on the banks of the Rio Bravo, the U.S.-Mexico border
The migrants seemed to have prepared for a long journey. Many had erected tents and tarps over parts of the containers to protect themselves from the elements
Migrants travel on a train with the intention of getting to the United States in Ciudad Juárez, seen last month
Last month, migrants helped each other climb over a barbed wire fence from Mexico into the United States in Eagle Pass, Texas
Fiscal year 2022 saw a record-breaking number of migrant encounters at the southwest border, with 2,378,944 border crossings reported from October to September.
In 2023, through July, there were 1,973,092 – many of them after Title 42 expired.
According to Fox News, the number of migrant crossings is expected to exceed 230,000 in August.
Most migrant encounters involve single adults, 64.9 percent, but nearly 600,000 involve individuals in a family setting, and 109,298 unaccompanied minors crossed the border.
There is excess capacity everywhere along the southern border. In addition to Tucson, road releases also occur in the San Diego sector and Santa Cruz County, California.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has moved over 35,000 migrants from his state to “sanctuary cities” in the US, including over 13,300 to New York City
Security forces observed migrants attempting to enter the United States after crossing the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, before the end of Title 42
The crisis at the border escalated in April with the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration policy, resulting in over 10,000 undocumented arrivals daily for several days
In an aerial photo, immigrants line up to apply for asylum at a makeshift refugee camp in El Paso, Texas, in May
Texas is using barbed wire to block illegal migrant entry as it fights a challenge from the Biden administration to prevent the construction of a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande.
The Lone Stat State has also bused migrants to “sanctuary cities” like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles to provide some relief to border cities.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argues that Texas cities have borne the burden of illegal immigration and “sanctuary cities” must share that burden.
“Texas bused over 35,000 migrants to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities,” he wrote on Twitter earlier this month.
“Over 11,300 to DC, over 13,300 to NYC, over 6,700 to Chicago, over 2,600 to Philadelphia, over 1,000 to Denver, over 480 to LA.”
Border Patrol agents in San Diego have freed hundreds of migrants from buses as the U.S.-Mexico border crisis continues to plague California
The city is struggling to cope with the influx of migrants in the area and footage captured shows them being released from overcrowded facilities
This is happening because southwest border towns and federal processing centers are at capacity as a rush at border crossings paralyzes the country
Southwest border towns and federal processing centers are overwhelmed as a rush at border crossings paralyzes the country.
Last week, there were more than 7,000 illegal crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border over several days.
Photos showed at least three white, unmarked Border Patrol buses full of migrants parked in San Diego.
They began sending several hundred people onto the streets. One migrant was told by an agent: ‘You are free to go ahead and do whatever you want.’ You are free.’
He asked, “Isn’t it a problem if I go to Chicago?”
“You can do whatever you want,” the officer replied.
The Border Patrol in San Diego was reportedly dealing with 20,000 migrants in custody last week – 5,000 more than the facilities can handle.
It cannot hold more than 15,000 migrants and migrants are released onto the streets to fend for themselves after they are processed at the border.
Similar migrant releases took place in Tucson, Arizona, where agents encountered 2,000 people a day and dealt with overcrowded shelters.
The Border Patrol in San Diego has reportedly dealt with 20,000 migrants in custody in the last week – 5,000 more than the facilities can handle
There were over 7,000 illegal crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border on several days this week
People from the African countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Ghana and Sudan are among the migrants who recently crossed into the United States from Mexico.
Cochise County, Arizona, is being inundated by waves of migrants who arrived by bus from other counties after crossing the border amid President Joe Biden’s lax policies.
“The intellectual avoidance and neglect with the intended consequences” of these leaders in Washington, DC, points to how our southern border continues to be a thorny precipice for those who are doing everything we can to protect our quality of life here in Cochise County! said Sheriff Mark Dannels.
“The released migrants are from outside Cochise County but were bused into Cochise County, processed and then released,” Daniels noted in a Facebook post.
“I applaud the local.” [Customs and Border Protections] I thank the agents and their leadership for doing everything they legally could during this ongoing crisis.”
It’s unclear exactly how many migrants the Tucson processing facilities can handle, or how many have been transported to other locations such as Cochise County.
U.S. Border Patrol agents are turning away migrants after processing because their facilities are overcrowded and at capacity
Senegalese migrants are among thousands of others turned away from processing plants and left onto the streets to fend for themselves.