A convoy of about 3,000 migrants is moving north towards the US border on US election day. According to Border Patrol officials, this movement is an attempt to cross the border while President Joe Biden is still in office. This was reported by The New York Post.
According to the publication, on 5 November, a group of migrants was spotted on their way from the city of Tapachula in southern Mexico. The photos show hundreds of men, women and children moving north, approaching the United States.
A Border Patrol source said the agency was expecting a new wave of migration due to the US election, because ‘if Trump wins, they will try to get here before he officially takes office.’
The House Committee on Homeland Security has estimated that more than 10 million migrants could attempt to cross the border illegally by the end of Biden’s term, The New York Post reports.
Last year, the Biden administration recorded the highest level of illegal migration, with more than a million people attempting to cross the border in a matter of months.
The New York Post also writes that many migrants fear that if Trump wins, the asylum programme for illegal migrants will be completely scrapped. Trump has made the fight against illegal immigration a major theme of his campaign, promising to tighten border controls and deport millions of migrants if he becomes president again.
