Trench warfare at the border: Staggering drone footage shows Texas guards holding a line of Venezuelan migrants back as they try and get around the barbed wire

Texas law enforcement officials and National Guard posted up along a section of the southern border in El Paso overnight to prevent a line of Venezuelan migrants from charging the barriers.

Shocking images and drone footage emerged showing a trench of migrants camping out on the Juarez, Mexico side of the southern border Sunday night huddled around fires and bundled in blankets.

Republicans and border hawks are growing increasingly annoyed with a lack of action to address the border migration crisis as illegal crossings continue to surge.

Military Humvees were stationed every few yards along the Texas side of the border to hold the line as migrants attempted to cross razor wire and illegally enter the U.S.

Todd Benson of the Center for Immigration Studies posted video of the scene to X and noted that Texas forces began firing pepper balls to break up groups of immigrants attempting to charge the border wall.

Migrants bundle up near the razor-wire fencing between Mexico and a border crossing near El Paso, Texas as Texas law enforcement and National Guard stand watch on the other side

On Monday morning, the mostly Venezuelan migrants lined-up at the border wall to turn themselves into border agents after traversing through razor wire fencing

A Mexican immigration officer explained to Benson that migrants 'tried to break through and cut the fence' of razor wire in order to gain access to the U.S. side of the border.

'They make a hole and go through,' he said in video of where migrants crawled through razor wire, some losing their garments to the dangerous fencing in the process.

The latest incident comes after hundreds of migrants broke through razor wire last month near El Paso and charged the border in a dramatic clash with members of the Texas National Guard.

Texas Department of Public Safety arrested and charged 221 migrants for rioting and criminal mischief, Benson notes in a threat posted to X, formerly Twitter.

He also said that after a tense night, it appears on Monday morning that enforcement began letting back across the border the mostly Venezuelan migrants.

'Last night the Texas line at Juarez-El Paso holding back Venezuelans camping behind the concertina wire,' Benson wrote along with drone footage of a portion of the border in El Paso.

'They're not giving up yet here in Juarez even though Texas forces are now firing pepper balls to break up the immigrant banzai charges through the Texas fortifications at gate 36,' he added along with video of bundled-up migrants standing near the razor wire fencing. 

Clothing and other garments are stuck in dangerous razor wire that migrants traverse to make it to the border wall and illegally cross into the U.S. 

Texas State Troopers walk towards a fence after hundreds of migrants broke through razor wire to enter the US illegal last month

A few hours later, Benson released another video with a line of migrants along the border wall appearing to prepare to turn themselves over to immigration authorities.

'Unclear what happened but someone's letting them in again,' he wrote, 'right through or around Texas fortifications here in Juarez, and so of COURSE they keep coming despite whatever Texas is doing.'

Many asylum seeking migrants in this area chose not to surrender themselves immediately after crossing the barrier between the U.S. and Mexico because they were caught in limbo due a Texas law SB4.

The controversial law in the Lone Star State gives state and local police permission to arrest, detain and remove illegal immigrants, a right that has only been reserved for federal officers like Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

The law, which has been banned several times in recent days by federal courts, was then allowed to take effect for a few hours Tuesday, before it blocked again Tuesday night.