By Jennie Taer
Published Oct. 31, 2024, 4:42 p.m. ET
Authorities in one Texas border area are seeing a huge surge of mass migrant crossings ahead of the election — as sources say the groups are in a rush to make it into the US before former President Trump wins.
Migrants are “without a doubt” rushing because “they see that their free lunch is most likely coming to an end,” a Border Patrol source told The Post.
More than 300 migrants are turning themselves in to border agents each day in Maverick County, which is home to Eagle Pass, according to multiple Border Patrol sources.
It’s roughly double what they were seeing just a few weeks ago.
Among the large groups crossing into South Texas are more migrants from countries deemed as “special interest” due to being hotbeds of terror suspects — including Iran, Angola, Guinea and Pakistan.
For months, the summer heat and Texas’ crackdown on illegal crossings kept the groups out.
But now the migrants are growing desperate under the wire of the election.
Trump has pledged to toughen border restrictions and to deport illegal migrants en masse.
The 45th president said he would bring in local law enforcement and the military to assist federal immigration authorities to deport “nearly 20 million” illegal migrants in an operation inspired by the dragnet-style sweeps of “Operation Wetback” under former President Dwight Eisenhower that deported more than 1 million migrants in 1954.
“Everyone wants to get in in case Trump gets elected,” said a Border Patrol source.
But not everyone is betting on Trump closing down the borders. Some migrants believe that if “border czar” Vice President Kamala Harris is elected, there will be another wave of migrants racing to the US border, a source said.
“They’re afraid they’re going to miss their opportunity,” the source said, adding “they don’t want to wait in line behind the millions that will follow if Kamala wins.”
The cartels smuggling the groups are also trying rake in any profits they can “because … they know Trump is about to get elected,” said another source.
The number of special interest aliens crossing the southern border have surged under the Biden-Harris admin with 1.7 million encounters of such migrants, according to a report.
The renewed surge at the border comes as the Biden-Harris admin took a victory lap after implementing new asylum restrictions as crossings fell from roughly 250,000 in December to 55,000 in September, according to federal data.
