A migrant carries a tiny baby around a razor wire fence and up a steep Texas riverbank where he precariously hands the child to another man atop a shipping container.
Within minutes, a uniformed federal officer arrives to help.
He hoists up the others in the 30-person group as they leisurely scale the fortifications and illegally enter the country.
A visibly pregnant woman is next. She's guided to river on the Mexican side by a smuggler.
Nearby, Texas state border guards simply look on.
They know all too well that Mexican cartels and human traffickers take advantage of these desperate people and use their children like pawns – even posing as their parents to curry favor with U.S. immigration officials, who appear sympathetic.
Not that a harder line would achieve much - they're overwhelmed.
So nearly everyone is simply ushered through. Few tough questions are asked. Only a small percentage are expelled.
Once safely across, the U.S. government transports the undocumented to charities that spend tens of millions of donated dollars to put them on buses and planes to shuttle them off to the destinations of their choosing. --->READ MORE HERE
Cheering and holding hands as they wade through waist-deep water, this is the astonishing moment a group of 100 migrants stormed across the Rio Grande.
The crowd surged past Border Patrol boats that were trying to stop them before being allowed through a razor wire thicket on the US side after a standoff that lasted for more than four hours.
Eagle Pass, Texas, has been overwhelmed with migrants in recent days, with more than 7,500 flooding into the tiny town of 28,000 people on Monday and Tuesday alone.
In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered thickets of razor wire to be placed along the banks of the river – only for President Biden to demand it be cut down.
Pugilistic Abbot then had it replaced and doubled but will now have to reinstate the makeshift barrier for a second time after the migrant group was allowed through due to concern for their welfare in the searing 101-degree heat on Saturday.
Although the flow of migrants into Eagle Pass has dropped dramatically in the last few days, some large groups are still arriving.
The 100-strong crowd had arrived in Piedras Negras on the Mexican side early on Saturday morning and made their way to an unshaded island in the middle of the river.
Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show the group engaged in a standoff with Border Patrol and National Guard boats which circled and blocked them as they attempted to cross.
Then, after two hours, the migrants surged forward together and crowded onto a bank on the US side where they stood refusing to move for another two hours while they tried to find a way through Abbot’s razor wire hurdle - despite being repeatedly told to go back. --->READ MORE HERE
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