- About 3,000 migrants, including 250 children, are marching from southern Mexico to the country’s border with the United States
- The migrants departed the border town of Tapachula, in Chiapas, on Saturday and were resting in Huehuetán under the hot sun on Monday
- The group, called by organizers the ‘Madre Caravana’ or ‘Mother Caravan,’ plans to reaching Mexico City to demand documents to move freely across Mexico
- At least 1,000 state troopers and Texas Rangers are currently assigned to monitor the border with Mexico as part of the state’s Operation Lone Star
A unit of 1,000 state police officers and Texas Rangers assigned to monitor areas along the Lone Star State’s 1,241 miles of border with Mexico is readying to guard against the next surge of migrants looking to defy President Joe Biden’s administration.
A month has passed since Texas state law enforcement agents played a role in preventing some 15,000 migrants – mostly Haitians – from crossing the United States-Mexico border.
The state troopers and Rangers would be expected to do the same in the coming days, but with a smaller caravan of migrants predominantly led by Central Americans that is marching through southern Mexico toward the United States.
Organizers had initially said that the group, called ‘Madre Caravana’ or ‘Mother Caravan,’ would be formed by tens of thousands of migrants, according to BorderReport.com.
But now, about 3,000 migrants, including some 250 children, stopped along a highway in Huehuetán, a city in the southern state of Chiapas, on Monday, as the weather topped 89 degrees but really felt like 99 due to the humidity.
‘The Texas Department of Public Safety [DPS] is committed to securing our southern border under the direction of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and has deployed around one-thousand Troopers, Special Agents and Texas Rangers as part of Operation Lone Star (OLS),’ a spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Monday.
‘While the department does not discuss operational specifics, we continue to monitor the situation as it unfolds in order to make real-time decisions and will adjust operations as necessary.’
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