Trump Threatens To CLOSE Border As Migrants Overwhelm Texas — We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’

Word has it Mexico is preparing for what’s been dubbed the “mother of all caravans.”

“We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ‘the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people,” Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.

However, there are others who say it’s just a rumor. Either way, illegal immigration is a problem, and America needs to be on guard. We’re already dealing with the fallout from mass illegal immigration. According to this, cities in Texas are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of illegal immigrants.

Seven hundred miles east, busload after busload of weary, bedraggled migrants crowd into the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas. Organizers there are used to handling 200 to 300 migrants a day. Lately, the migrants have been arriving at a clip of around 800 a day, overflowing the respite center and straining city resources.

“It’s staggering,” McAllen City Manager Roy Rodriguez said. “Really, we’ve never seen anything like this before.”

We know this is true. Just last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the border crisis is hitting a “breaking point.” But according to Pelosi, this is a “manufactured crisis.”

Mhm. Sure.

They’re just completely overwhelmed.

In El Paso, migrant families pressed their faces against the chain-link fencing at the makeshift outdoor shelter under the Paso Del Norte International Bridge as they awaited their turn to seek asylum. Children covered their mouths with swaths of Mylar blankets and peeked through the fencing at passing Border Patrol guards.

On Wednesday, more than 850 migrants were released to local shelters, marking a new high for El Paso. The numbers are expected to keep rising, according to Ruben Garcia, executive director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit that provides services to migrants released by federal authorities.

“It’s going to be very, very challenging,” he said.

Garcia and other shelter organizers have relied on a growing number of volunteers to help with the increased migrants. Ande McArthy, a retired nurse, and her husband, Michael, a retired physician assistant, traveled from Lake Huron, Michigan, to El Paso last week after their church put out a call to help for the Annunciation House.

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In McAllen, migrants deemed to have credible asylum cases are released to the Catholic Charities respite center, where they’re allowed to shower, given medical attention and helped with getting a bus or airplane ticket to their final U.S. destination.

Meanwhile, Trump has renewed his threat to close the border.

This isn’t over.

h/t USA Today