with them. i m told they will be armed with pepper balls to fire or potentially fire and they are under orders to not let any immigrantses up this riverbank. this is after just days and weeks of just thousands of immigrants from this camp, vast camp here pouring over the board, pouring over the border in coordinationen 22 the united states border patrol and the mexican immigration service. the u.s. tells mexico when to let them in and they ll cross in and when to stop them and they ll stop them for a while and in the meantime, texas dps is like, we re not having that, we ll get in your way. interesting to see how that, wos out. ashley: todd, you were talking about the group of people trying to get across.
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fired pepper balls to control a large crowd that crossed illegally and attacked agents with rocks and other weapons. this comes as law enforcement agents at the border have been overwhelmed by record number of migrants and rampant smuggling. bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas, with more. bill? reporter: good afternoon to you. every single morning this week colleague like clockwork, we have had an enormous group cross illegally here. take a look at this footage a before sunrise this morning with our fantastic drone team, thermal-capable drone. several hundred migrants crossing in to normandy, texas, on the north side of eagle pass. you ll see these migrants in a single-file line wading across the rio grande and then entering texas. you ll notice there is no resistance on either side of the border. this is the fifth day in a row we have seen this exact same thing may out this week so far, and this isn t even the biggest
overworked. cpp overworked and not getting the credit they deserve? instead, basically silence. and people are saying why was it necessary to shoot paint balls and pepper balls at the invaders. that s what they re. venezuelans frustrated he implemented a remain in mexico policy for the venezuelans because, guess what? it worked. steve: they have expanded title 42 and now they are being sent back to mexico and now mexico is busing the migrants, particularly from venezuela deeper into mexico. and they are saying okay, you have got two weeks to either get a visa or get out of mexico. and, of course the united states has said you have got to go back. in the meantime, so, there was a violent act against the guy who got clunked with the flag pole and somebody else who was pelted with rocks who works for the border patrol. and the agent union came out with a statement and said asked a great question.
steve: let s talk a little bit about what happened on our southern border. ainsley just brought up a great point. remember when it was alleged that those bad border patrol agents on horseback were whipping the migrants from haiti? turns out that never happened. ainsley: number one top story. steve: in the whole wide world. fast forward they for the most part have been exxonner rate offed. there was no whipping. now there is a story out of el paso where there was violence but it wasn t directed at the migrants, it was directed at border patrol. ainsley: that s right. so what happened these massive group of illegals crossing in on monday over into el paso, texas, they were waiving this large venezuelan flag. steve: there it is. ainsley: they attacked the border patrol agents before being pushed back into the river. the agents had to use the crowd control measures like the pepper balls. they assaulted one of the agents with a flag pole and threw a rock. brian: wouldn t it be g