Record numbers of migrants and refugees have arrived at the US-Mexico border, hoping to be allowed into the United States.

In Eagle Pass, Texas, migrants and refugees from countries including Honduras and Venezuela crossed the Rio Grande River that separates the U.S. and Mexico to encounter an almost impassable wall of barbed wire.

The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, announced this Tuesday that he will soon sign a decree to declare a national emergency due to the increase in migratory flows entering the country in transit and warned that the authorities will deport to migrants who “behave badly.”

The mayor of El Paso says the border city is now at “breaking point” while another city, Eagle Pass has declared a state of emergency as upwards of 2,000 migrants arrive at the border every day.

The Mexican government moved to disperse a build-up of migrants on its southern border with Guatemala by transporting thousands to nearby towns and setting up a camp to relieve pressure on local authorities.

According to the National Migration Institute, hundreds of buses and vans were deployed to move over 8,000 migrants from the southern city of Tapachula to other parts of the state of Chiapas and the southern states of Veracruz and Tabasco

Aljazeera/Agencies.