EAGLE PASS: In trucks, vans and RVs, hundreds of people converged on Saturday in southern Texas to rally against what they say is a migrant `invasion` and to demand tough new controls at the US border with Mexico.

Scrawled on the side of one of the vehicles reaching Quemado population 162 were the words `Join the God Fight.` The convoy decided to gather in this tiny town along the Rio Grande river, which forms the natural border between the United States and Mexico, as debate swirls again about how to address record high migrant crossings.

Hundreds of thousands of people from Centraland South America, and beyond, have waded across the river in recent month in hopes of better lives in the United States.

But their huge numbers have become a galvanising issue, especially ahead of the November presidential election, with Republicans in Congress blocking additional US aid to Ukraine and Israel over demands that President Joe Biden`s administration does more to stop the flow.

And so it is at tiny Quemado that the activist group calling itself `We the People` the first words in the preamble to the US Constitution decided to meet and make their anger known.-AFP