Shocking footage appears to show a US soldier opening a gate to let a
steady stream of border crossers onto private property in Texas — then >watching as a bus pulls up to whisk them away.
Footage shared by Fox LA reporter Bill Melugin late Monday starts with a >woman in military gear calmly backing up from a high fence in Eagle Pass
as the gate is opened up.
In just over a minute, dozens of people casually walk through the opening
— with others still slowly walking toward it as the clip ends.
As they enter, a small craft watches from the river, which Melugin said
was the Border Patrol.
The same female soldier who appeared to have opened the gate then comes
back into the frame, calmly watching the new arrivals as a white bus pulls
up with another vehicle behind.
Melugin said the clip, from early Monday, “shows a large group of migrants >crossing illegally onto private property.”
However, once on US soil, migrants cannot be turned away, with the law
being broken when they enter the country, before reaching the gate.
The Texas National Guard denied the soldier was one of its troops —
instead saying it was “a Title 10 soldier from the Missouri [Army National >Guard]” under orders from the federal government and working with the
Border Patrol, Melugin tweeted.
US Northern Command said that its service members are stationed at the
border only in support of Border Patrol, whose agents would be the only
ones able to open the gate.
Border Patrol did not immediately respond to requests for comment early >Tuesday.
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