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Thousands of predominantly Venezuelan adult illegal immigrants moved into Texas and gathered under a nearby bridge on Wednesday, reminiscent of the Haitian migrant crisis two years ago -- just as numbers are again skyrocketing at the border.
Texas troopers told Fox News that their initial count of the number of migrants moving across the water into Eagle Pass on Wednesday was about 4,000. The migrants gathered under the bridge and were waiting to be processed by Border Patrol, in the hope of being released into the U.S.
The U.S. Border Patrol recorded more than 177,000 arrests in August, according to The Washington Post — roughly a 30% increase from the 132,652 migrants detained in July.