By Amber Crawford
On Sunday night, a migrant caravan of over 1,000 illegal immigrants crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas. This is possibly the largest single caravan in history to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sources from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that, in El Paso, they have seen 2,397 migrant encounters in the last 24 hours. Migrants from this caravan are mostly from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Other migrants were reportedly from Ecuador, Honduras, Haiti, and Guatemala.
Footage from the border shows the migrants packed together as they trek through the water with their personal items towards the riverbank where they will wait in a long line to be processed by CBP officials.
In the video, migrants are seen burning trash along the river in order to keep warm while waiting to reach the border.
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