A
“large group of migrants”
briefly forced a crossing at the border between Mexico and the United States, according to the US Border Patrol, with the governor of Texas later saying that law enforcement had “
quickly regained control »
.
Immigration is a subject of great tension between border states and the Biden administration, against the backdrop of the electoral campaign for the presidential election in November.
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“Around 11 a.m. Thursday
(4 p.m. GMT)
, a large group of migrants broke through Texas National Guard barbed wire barricades located between the
Rio Grande (river)
and the border wall in El Paso
,” it said. the US border police, CBP, said in a statement.
CBP agents
“then picked up the migrants at the border wall and transported them to an
administrative processing center,” the statement said.
In a video taken in El Paso and published Thursday by the tabloid
New York Post
, men in fatigues attempt to straighten a barbed wire barrier behind which dozens of migrants are massed.
Some of them shoot at one of the fence posts while others outrun the men in fatigues and start running until they reach another fence, closed and several meters high.
“Deliberate inaction”
“Regarding the influx of illegal migrants in El Paso: the Texas National Guard and public safety have quickly regained control and are fortifying the barbed wire barriers
,” Texas Governor Greg said on the social network Abbott.
The elected Republican, ally of Donald Trump, accuses Joe Biden of
“deliberate inaction”
in the face of the influx of migrants which he describes as an
“invasion”.
Illustration of the tensions around the issue in the middle of an election year, a law on immigration, negotiated for months by members of both parties, was finally rejected at the start of the year by the Republicans in Congress, at the request of Donald Trump.
The White House assures that the Republican Party is deliberately sabotaging any attempt at compromise on the issue, and that the ex-president does not intend to give a political victory to his successor and rival before the presidential election.