Video footage shows the shocking moment when a huge rush of migrants crossed the Tijuana River into the USA – shortly afterwards a man was found dead.
A 36-year-old West African man who was part of the crowd died early Wednesday morning at the Tijuana River canal.
Mexico’s National Institute for Migration shared the video showing dozens of migrants running into the country knee-deep in water.
According to Fox 5, the victim’s body was reportedly found downstream near the northern border in California’s Tijuana River Valley.
According to Fox 5, the man died shortly after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrived on scene after responding to a 911 call.
A 36-year-old West African man who was part of the crowd died early Wednesday morning at the Tijuana River canal
A group of migrants stand next to a Border Patrol truck after surrendering at the Tijuana River at the U.S.-Mexico border
Enrique Lucero, head of the Office of Migration Affairs in Tijuana, said we should expect more tragedies like this due to mass border crossings.
He told KTLA 5 that recent crossings involving people from Africa pose an extreme risk to their safety.
“Mass crossings are a very complicated issue, especially with people from the African continent continuing to do so despite the dangers and the deployment of migration officials on both sides of the border trying to stop them,” he said.
He said officials were “confused” as they tried to figure out who was bringing the thousands of migrants from Africa to Tijuana and how they were getting into the region.
“The power is constant and we don’t know how they get here,” he told KTLA 5. “There is no register at the airport or bus stations.”
Tijuana police and immigration authorities feel “helpless” in their efforts to contain the mass raids, Lucero told the medium.
A member of Mexico’s National Institute for Migration shared the video showing dozens of migrants running into the country knee-deep in water
Video footage shows the shocking moment when a huge rush of migrants crossed the Tijuana River into the USA – shortly afterwards a man was found dead
Enrique Lucero, head of the Office of Migration Affairs in Tijuana, said we should expect more tragedies like this due to mass border crossings
Aerial view of the Tijuana River crossing the Mexico-US border – marked by a line on the river bank
“We can try to stop them, apprehend them, neutralize them, but this will continue as long as migrants have this feeling of desperation because they cannot get an appointment through the CBP One app.”
A harrowing Republican report released last week revealed the enormous cost of Biden’s refugee crisis.
Taxpayers will have to pay nearly half a trillion dollars each year because the Biden administration is failing to stop migrants at the southern border, Republicans said in a report last Monday.
According to the House study, the cost of providing education, health care, law enforcement and other expenses created by the millions of additional migrants is up to $451 billion per year.
The 49-page report comes as House Republicans push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for allegedly failing to stem record numbers of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly related to illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by … Mayorkas’ policies,” the report said.
Migrants are protesting on their way to the United States, where Republicans say they are a costly drain on resources
Hundreds of migrants are marching in a caravan through southern Mexico, many of them heading towards the USA
The cost of Medicaid alone for undocumented immigrants has risen sharply over the last decade
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is facing impeachment proceedings over the border crisis
“Mass illegal immigration accelerated by Mayorkas’ open borders policies is now a huge cost to the federal and state governments, as well as to the pocketbooks of individuals and businesses.”
President Joe Biden’s administration is grappling with record numbers of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. This trend is being fueled by more and more people fleeing political chaos in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Since Biden took office in 2021, US border officials have arrested more than 5 million migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border irregularly – that is, not through a controlled border station.
Many are applying for asylum at the border and traveling north to look for work in sanctuary cities like New York City, Washington, D.C. and Chicago, which are reeling under the burden of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the new arrivals.
Amid chaotic scenes of crowded buses coming from the border and migrants sleeping outside refugee camps, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said earlier this fall that the influx would “destroy” the city.