Heroic moment Texas troopers and Border Patrol agents perform CPR on drowning victim and save drenched migrants during mass illegal crossing in Eagle Pass

Shocking footage shows Texas State Troopers and Border Patrol agents performing CPR on a migrant who nearly drowned.

The video comes from an illegal crossing near Eagle Pass in Texas, where a state of emergency was declared after being overrun with migrants in September.

Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez detailed the heroism by a Tactical Marine Unit as the group struggled to cross the Rio Grande.

'Operators acted swiftly in deploying personal floatation devices, pulling women & children out of the river, & performing resuscitating efforts,' he said.

'The images & audio capture the volatile conditions involving mass illegal migration between ports of entry by crossing the unpredictable & dangerous Rio Grande,' Olivarez added.

Some of the women begged the operators to save their children before they worried about them.

'Tremendous job by our TMU Operators, who exemplify professionalism & courageous efforts by adapting to an ever-changing environment from a law enforcement role to performing rescue operations.'

It's unclear the full extent of the migrants' injuries, but at least two women were resuscitated before being taken to a hospital, according to El Tiempo Latino. 

It comes just two months after Eagle Pass had to declare emergency when 4,000 migrants have crossed the border. 

Mayor Rolando Salinas of Eagle Pass signed an Emergency Declaration after the new surge of migrants started arriving at the weekend.

Salinas also stated the city of Eagle Pass would not be opening a shelter: 'We don't have the funds or resources to do that.'

Videos posted to social media showed hordes of migrants in Eagle Pass, as lax policies by the Biden Administration continue to allow floods of aliens into the US and inundate southern cities. 

'The City of Eagle Pass is committed to the safety and well being of our local citizens,' Salinas said in announcing the declaration. 

'The emergency declaration grants us the ability to request financial resources to provide the additional services caused by the influx of the undocumented immigrants.' 

The rush of migrants into the town also led the city to shut down Eagle Pass Bridge 1 at 6pm local time. Vehicles were forced to use the second bridge to cross into or return from Mexico. 

The closure was because of the significant migrant influx, city leaders said. 

Eagle Pass is one of the border towns that has been crushed in recent months by the influx of migrants. 

Valeria Wheeler operates a shelter in the area and told WOAI in San Antonio, Texas, they plan to open a new shelter on Thursday. That will take their space from 8,000 square feet to 25,000 square feet. 

'The big difference here is that we are offering space for up to 200 people to stay overnight. Mothers and children will be more comfortable,' Wheeler told the outlet. 

A migrant from Venezuela at the shelter made the trip with her 18-month-old son. She said she crossed the Darien Gap in Panama before riding on trains to the border. 

The woman added if she knew today what she did when she left, she would not have embarked on the dangerous trip. 

The US border has seen a flood of migrants from across the world, not just from Central and South American nations such as Venezuela and Mexico. There have been migrants from China and other places entering via the porous southern border.

The 2022 fiscal year saw record-breaking numbers of encounters with migrants at the Southwest border with 2,378,944 reported crossings from October to September.

In 2023, through July, there have been 1,973,092 - many of them coming as Title 42 expired.

The number of migrant crossings in August is set to exceed 230,000, according to Fox News.

The jump in crossing has grown in recent years with a mere 458,088 crossings reported in 2020 during the worldwide COVID pandemic.

Most migrant encounters are single adults, at 64.9 percent, but almost 600,000 are individuals in a family unit and there have been 109,298 unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

Texas has been using razor wire to block migrants illegally entering as it battles a challenge from the Biden administration seeking to stop it from building a buoy barrier in the Rio Grande.

The Lone Star State has also been busing migrants to 'sanctuary cities' such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles in order to give border towns some relief.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argues that Texas cities have carried the weight of illegal immigration and 'sanctuary cities' need to share that burden.

'Texas has bused over 35,000 migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities,' he wrote earlier this month on Twitter.

'Over 11,300 to D.C., over 13,300 to NYC, over 6,700 to Chicago, over 2,600 to Philadelphia, over 1,000 to Denver, over 480 to LA.'

New York has seen more than 100,000 migrants arrive since the crisis began more than 18 months ago - leading Mayor Eric Adams to declare the situation will 'destroy' the city. 

Adams says that New York City is struggling to cope, and has ordered agencies to slash their budgets by 5 percent, and possibly 15 percent in the future, in order to pay for the response to the new arrivals. 

Despite Adams' cries for help from the state and federal government, the city has not received aid to cover the extra costs, so the $4.7billion would come from the city's budget.

That amount is equal to the budgets for the city's sanitation, fire and parks departments combined.

As the school year kicked off, some schools were forced to turn away students as the classrooms overflowed.

City officials have said they expect the number asylum seeker population to reach nearly 33,980 households this fiscal year.

The city is currently paying about $385 a night per migrant family that needs housing and feeding.

According to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, asylum seekers are costing the city roughly $10 million every day.