Small Texas Town Readies for Migrant Caravan Amassed Across River

Hundreds of extra law enforcement and military personnel are shoring up Border Patrol efforts in case of a mass incursion

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stand next to newly-installed concertina wire halfway along the Camino Real International Bridge from Piedras Negras, Mexico, towards Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb. 8, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

EAGLE PASS, Texas—The little border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, is the latest to be faced with the migrant caravan phenomenon.

Its neighbors to the east, in the state’s Rio Grande Valley, have become well-versed in so-called caravans—they get a caravan’s worth of asylum-seekers crossing illegally every day.