Reporting on the ground at Eagle Pass, Texas, Venegas told Diaz-Balart, “A lot of us knew this would happen because immigration isn’t enforcing the laws inside of Mexico.”
He continued:
These crowds here in Eagle Pass have never been this large during my reporting. This is the most people I’ve ever seen in Eagle Pass, and other reporters, colleagues working other parts of the border in Arizona, [and] in Jacumba near San Diego tell me the same thing. We have these conversations and the conversation is always, “Wow, I’ve never seen this number of migrants arriving,” and we know from the reports coming from the government with these numbers. We have the number of apprehensions, the numbers of encounters, everything spiking, so we don’t know what this will mean moving forward, we just know that the numbers are much larger as the resources are spread thin.
Venegas went on to reveal that hospitals in the area “are also overwhelmed” due to the number of arriving migrants.