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The state of Texas is ramping up security operations along its southern border with Mexico, shoring up military and police forces in anticipation of the arrival of a migrant caravan, the state’s governor announced Friday afternoon.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety have developed and practiced how to implement strategies to deflect “mass migration” events, in which hundreds or thousands of people could attempt to enter illegally at one spot at the same time.
“Some evidence makes it seem as though the caravans are disbanding to some extent,” Abbott said during a press conference along the border in Weslaco. “Even if the caravans are breaking up, it doesn’t mean the people who were part of the caravans are not going to be trying to make it to the United States of America. It’s just that they may be making it in ones and twos instead of large caravans.”
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In early June, thousands of migrants in southern Mexico formed a massive caravan determined to travel by foot to the southern border, specifically Texas.
A group of between 6,000 and 11,000 people departed Tapachula, a city near Mexico’s border with Guatemala. The caravan was organized by Luis Garcia Villagran, who organized previous unsuccessful caravans from southern Mexico in 2021 that never made it to the United States.
Unlike Villagran’s previous attempts, this effort is expected to grow to 15,000 participants, which would make it the largest group since the phenomenon of mass migration movements began early on in the Trump administration.
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The Mexican government responded to the caravan with a promise to issue 1,000 humanitarian visas that would allow only a small number of the migrants to reside and work in the country legally.
Although the size of the caravan decreased, reports indicate that smaller groups are being bused to the southern border rather than traveling by foot.
Mexican media caught a large group of people crossing into Eagle Pass on Thursday.
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One city official in Eagle Pass, who spoke with the Washington Examiner on Friday on condition of anonymity, said the smaller groups are “pretty organized” when it comes to crossing and avoiding state police in Coahuila, Mexico, and law enforcement attempting to deter them on the U.S. side.
“[Groups] come 2,000 here and there. The [Mexican government] doesn’t send all back, but the state of Coahuila tries as do other border states. The visas they are given by Mexico says they can’t be in border states, only [the] interior. So some are sent back but not all,” the official said in a text message.
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Texas National Guard Maj. Gen. Ronald Burkett II told media Friday that troops have practiced how to move quickly to different areas of the border depending on where people are crossing. They are also trained to block people who come across the water from getting past their linear formations on land.
