TX Law Enforcement officers line the banks of the Rio Grande to wait for migrant caravan

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TX Law Enforcement officers line the banks of the Rio Grande to wait for migrant caravan
By Martin Savidge and Steve Almasy, CNN

Updated 7:19 AM ET, Fri February 8, 2019


Members of the US Border Police guard the Rio Bravo, natural border between Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Thursday.

Eagle Pass, Texas (CNN)Eagle Pass, Texas, is usually a pretty quiet place. But this week, it has turned into an immigration showdown involving hundreds of law enforcement officers and a migrant caravan.

The migrants, about 1,800 of them, are being housed by the Mexican government across the Rio Grande in Piedras Negras.

The Central American immigrants want to come to the United States but US authorities are telling them to stay in Mexico while they wait through the process of seeking asylum.

The migrants began showing up Monday, arriving along the border on more than 50 buses.

In preparation for the migrants' arrivals, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, sent 500 officers from the department of public safety to Eagle Pass, according to Mayor Ramsey English Cantu.

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[Moostache]

1. What? no guns drawn and targeting through scopes? I guess that's for Ferguson only?

[gratuitous]

6. Well, they're asylum-seeking immigrants

Not citizens entitled to the full force of the law like the people of Ferguson.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. It looks like the one on top is

enacting the Bravery of Being out of Range.

[Vinca]

2. Well, if that isn't a signal to all the American-born criminals in Texas to hit the streets,

I don't know what is. Texas cops are willing to protect you from a little, brown toddler, but not so much your crazy neighbor with the arsenal of military weapons.

[sheshe2]

3. Did Don hang out a help wanted sign?

[procon]

4. Aren't they just the bravest evah?

Why, there's enough he-man truck testosterone on display to scare off most single moms and their babies, right?

What a nasty, mean spirited and unrecognizable image that portrays of my beloved county. If they hadn't already survived far more terrors and dangers on the long road to ask for asylum and aid, the immigrants face more uncertainty from our once magnanimous nation that has always succored and welcomed refugeesin the past. They might be intimidated by armed soldiers in big trucks but the law gives us hope that Trump's madness will not endure.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. REAL criminals must be having a great time in Texas

with all these Law Enforcement Officers waiting for the "ghost caravan".

[gratuitous]

8. And isn't it nice that Texas has nothing else to spend money on?

When this blows a big hole through the state budget, will Texas turn to the federal government for reimbursement? What are they going to do when the Trump administration stiffs them? What will get cut? And how will the governor spin it so that he doesn't take the blame for burning through a big pile of money?

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Oh, they will just cut some unessential

"social" program.

[old guy]

10. How long did they hang around

after the photo op was done and the donut shop opened.