WATCH: Migrant families scale barbed wire fence into South Texas
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Aug 22, 2023 / 05:07 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 22, 2023 / 05:09 PM CDT
EAGLE PASS, Texas (Border Report) — Sixty-eight-year-old patriarch Jose Villafranca, of Honduras, led his and another family of migrants across the Rio Grande and then helped the group scale a fence topped with barbed wire on the riverbanks.
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Villafranca told Border Report on Monday that they walked for about three hours after illegally crossing the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico.
This group of nine migrants was able to scale a barbed wire fence on Aug. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas, where there is a gap in the concertina wire that was put as part of Operation Lone Star by the State of Texas. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report)
“It was very hard,” he said in Spanish, adding that they had “nothing,” not even no water.
The trip from La Ceiba, Honduras, took the family four months, he said. They came to work.
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