SHOCK footage shows the mass release of single adult migrants into the US through an unmarked office in a parking lot.
Buses were seen dropping off dozens of mostly male masked migrants at a garage in Brownsville, Texas on Sunday.
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A temporary processing center was set up inside the office, according to Fox News.
Taxis were then spotted outside the office where they whisked some of the migrants to Valley International airport in Harlingen – located around 30 minutes away from the site.
Some migrants claimed they had been smuggled across the Mexican border after paying criminals around $2,000. They were traveling to Atlanta, Miami, and Houston, Fox reports.
More than 178,000 migrants were apprehended trying to enter the US from Mexico last month, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
Last year, more than 170,000 kids were sent alone over the border and taken into custody.
Agents placed around 352 unaccompanied children in custody last month – down on the 926 reported in November.
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Smugglers are reportedly ferrying migrants on the backs of motorbikes as they look for new ways to try and evade the authorities.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute revealed it found eight motorcycles each with a driver and Cuban migrant riding on the back.
They were heading for the northern state of Coahuila – around 1,000 miles away. But, they were stopped 180 miles into their journey in Tabasco.
Authorities said the driver tried to disguise his identity as a healthcare worker, according to the Associated Press.
Victoria Lugo Mayor, seven, drowned in the Rio Grande as she and her mom Mayerlin tried to reach Del Rio.
The child’s body was recovered by Mexican officials while the mother was detained by Border Patrol.
‘PAINFUL BLOW’
Victoria’s uncle Guillermo Castillo told the AP: “It’s very painful… It’s a powerful blow to the family.”
He branded the child the “joy of the house”.
Castillo said Mayerlin couldn’t raise her daughter in Venezuela amid the collapse of the gas industry.
He said: “You have to try to leave and give an opportunity to the children because here sadly, here there is no future.”
Lawmakers in Florida are in the process of passing a bill that will stop firms in the Sunshine State from doing business with any transportation company funded by the federal government that brings illegal immigrants into Florida.
GOP state senator Aaron Bean said planes are arriving in Jacksonville in the “dead of night” and the Biden administration is “unaware” of the crisis.
He said: “We don’t know who these people are, and crimes … they’re committing are very real.”
The bill is currently blocking the White House from sending people who crossed the border illegally to Florida.
State Democrats are critical of the bill as they quizzed Republicans about its motivation.
Republican strategists are urging GOP candidates to make immigration a key political issue in the run-up to November’s midterms.
Stephen Miller, who was the architect behind Trump’s immigration policy, told CNN: “I’m very open about the fact that I believe the Republican Party needs to really dig in starting now, and work and put in the work to elevate this issue to the center of our national dialogue.”
A Rasmussen poll from earlier this month revealed that 54 percent of likely voters said Biden was poor on immigration-related matters.
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