Migrants in Mexico rush international bridge in El Paso in tense border showdown

A big group of migrants in Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico pushed previous Mexican customs officers and tried to run throughout a world bridge into El Paso, Texas, in a tense incident over the weekend.

Video taken by witnesses and migrants confirmed a number of hundred folks pushing by way of federal police border checkpoints and onto the Paso Del Norte Worldwide Bridge shortly earlier than 1:30 p.m. native time Sunday.

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All vehicular site visitors was shut down for a number of hours as folks lined the bridge from wall to wall. It was not clear and the U.S. authorities has not disclosed what prompted the group of migrants to satisfy at and rush the bridge.

U.S. Customs and Border Safety, the federal company whose officers examine pedestrians and automobiles on the northern facet of the bridge, despatched in officers and members of its Cell Subject Pressure to safe its facet of the bridge, “temporarily preventing the northbound flow of traffic after a large group of individuals formed on the Mexican side of the border and approached the international boundary posing a potential threat to make a mass entry,” the company stated in an announcement.

A Fox Information reporter claimed 1,000 folks tried to storm the bridge, however CBP has not confirmed such a determine. Protection by the El Paso Instances indicated a pair hundred folks in whole had been current.

CBP positioned bodily obstacles on the bridge. All vehicles and vans had been unable to cross the bridge by way of the afternoon. CBP proactively positioned different bodily obstacles at close by crossings, the Bridge of the Americas and the Station Crossing.