‘Most People I Have Ever Seen’: NBC Reporter Overwhelmed by Volume of Border Crossings

NBC News correspondent Guad Venegas expressed shock at the number of migrants crossing the southern border on Thursday and told MSNBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart he had never seen so many people.

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.

“If someone calls 911 and needs to go to the hospital, that hospital might be overwhelmed because they’re helping a lot of these migrants, so you have that humanitarian crisis happening as well,” he concluded. “That’s aside from everything that Customs and Border Protection has to do to process these migrants that are here seeking asylum.”

This week, a record 12,500 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in just one day alone.

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