Thousands of Venezuelan migrants gather under Texas bridge as border numbers skyrocket
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Thousands of Venezuelan migrants have flooded into the United States at the Texas-Mexico border, as numbers border-wide have been increasing for weeks.
Many of them told Fox News that they were arriving from Venezuela, with some saying they arrived on a train from Mexico. The Mexican military deployed on the Mexican side of the border, but it did not stop the migrants from crossing. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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The U.S. has seen a sharp uptick in crossings at the southern border in recent days. Officials have made over 45,000 migrant encounters in the last five days alone both at the ports of entry and between them, sources told Fox on Wednesday, with multiple days of over 8,000 illegal immigrant encounters.
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