Texas arrests 70 more migrants on rioting charges after SIX HUNDRED illegal ... trends now
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Authorities in Texas have arrested 70 migrants who broke through a line of National Guard troops on March 21 with the intent to storm past the El Paso border.
The 70 who were arrested were part of a group of 600 illegal crossers present that day, who were seen climbing over a triple layer of razor wire and then confronting the National Guard at the other side.
In a video of the riot captured by the New York Post, the group of migrants initially appear to put their hands in the air. The scene quickly turned violent when a few of them squeak through the several National Guard members that were closing the gap between a broken fence.
'There were probably only about a dozen ring leaders and then rest (of the migrants) just followed along,' one law enforcement source who chose to stay anonymous explained to the DailyMail.com.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has locked up more than 200 migrants whom Texas wants to arrest and charge related to this incident, an agency official told the New York Post. That same official reportedly said that federal authorities 'are not being as cooperative as Border Patrol.'
A group of about 600 migrants who entered the US illegally rushed the border Thursday in El Paso, Texas
A migrant observes others who breached the concertina wire on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The migrants were hoping to be processed by Border Patrol
About 600 migrants who breached the barriers set up on the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas
Members of the Texas National Guard work with Border Patrol to coordinate migrants who crossed the border from Mexico and forced their way through concertina wire while they wait to be
