Elon Musk slammed the Joe Biden administration for not taking “preventive action” to scale back unlawful immigration within the United States. This was in response to photographs shared by reporter Bill Melugin that confirmed “mass illegal crossing” going down in Eagle Pass. Date launched by the US Customs and Border Protection in 2022 confirmed that US border authorities had encountered over 2 million migrants in fiscal yr 2022.

“About 2 million people – from every country on Earth – are entering through the US southern border every year. The number is rising rapidly, yet no preventive action is taken by the current administration,” he mentioned on X.

“It’s a total free for all in Eagle Pass right now. Mass illegal crossing taking place for over an hour and a half. Almost 2 years to the day we saw 15,000+ Haitians under the bridge in Del Rio, we now have thousands of predominantly Venezuelans gathering under Eagle Pass bridge,” the reporter wrote on X.

Eagle Pass in Texas reported an unprecedented surge of 4000 migrats from Mexico on Wednesday. The metropolis declared a state of emergency.

Mayor Rolando Salinas mentioned a separate 2,500-person mob crossed the border into the town illegally Monday, including to the numbers final week.

“One of the situations is that a lot of these [migrants], they’re single males and they don’t want to listen to instructions and they’re leaving the facility,” the mayor mentioned.

“Not all of these people come in peace,” he added. “Within a day or two we should be able to clear out the people under the bridge. But if we get another wave tomorrow its Del Rio all over again.”