Eagle Pass in Texas has been flooded with at least 10,000 asylum-seekers a day for weeks and the surge did not take a break for the holiday as many more crossed the river into the US.
Border agents are stretched razor-thin trying to process at least 10,000 asylum-seekers walking across every day that official crossings in Texas and Arizona are shut with no one to regulate them.
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Two railroad bridges between Texas and Mexico are now closed after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a surge in criminal organizations smuggling migrants by train.