A massive group of hundreds of illegal immigrants hit just one part of the southern border early Saturday, as agents face tens of thousands of illegal crossings each month — and as the end of Title 42 authorities to expel migrants is just weeks away.

Fox News drone cameras showed the group of several hundred migrants who crossed and turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday morning.

A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) source told Fox News that there have been over 72,000 illegal crossings in the Del Rio Sector, where Eagle Pass is located, since the beginning of October when Fiscal Year 2022 began. There have been over 1,400 illegal crossings in the last 24 hours alone.

The southern border has been hit by a massive surge in illegal crossings since early 2021. There were more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in FY 2021 and that number jumped to over 2.3 million last fiscal year. 

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This week, Customs and Border Protection announced that there had been more than 230,000 encounters in October, up from more than 164,000 last October. The Biden administration has said that the border is "secure" and "closed" and has emphasized a response based on opening legal asylum pathways, targeting smugglers and combating "root causes" like poverty, violence and climate change.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers this week that the crisis was not just limited to the U.S. border.

"The entire hemisphere is suffering a migration crisis. We are seeing an unprecedented movement of people from country to country. It is not restricted to the southern border," Mayorkas said at a Senate hearing.

Republicans, meanwhile, have blamed the Biden administration for its border policies, including ending Trump-era border security systems and narrowing interior enforcement — which they say have encouraged migrants to make the journey north. Some border states have taken matters into their own hands. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this week declared an "invasion" at the border, a move he said gives Texas law enforcement the ability to return illegal immigrants.

FEDERAL COURT DELAYS END OF TITLE 42 BORDER POLICY UNTIL DECEMBER AMID FEARS OF MIGRANT SURGE 

The new groups of migrants come days after a federal judge ruled that the use of Title 42 to expel migrants is unlawful and has ordered the government to wind down the use of the public health order — first implemented in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden administration sought, and was granted, a five-week delay to implement its plan for a post-Title 42 border situation. The Trump-era order has been used to expel a majority of migrants at the border and the Biden administration last month expanded its use to include Venezuelan nationals.

Border Patrol sources have told Fox News that they fear the ending of the expulsions will lead to a fresh wave of migrants trying to get into the U.S. on the belief that they are now less likely to be removed. 

But DHS has said its plan includes the greater use of other removal authorities such as expedited removal and has warned potential migrants that they will not be let in.

"People should not listen to the lies by smugglers who will take advantage of vulnerable migrants, putting lives at risk. The border is closed, and we will continue to fully enforce our immigration laws at the border," DHS said in a statement.

A longtime Levi Strauss & Co. executive is revealing how she was allegedly pushed out of her high-profile role after speaking out against the COVID-19 school closures on Fox Nation’s "Tucker Carlson Today." 

Jennifer Sey, who spent nearly 23 years at Levi Strauss & Co. and described herself as a "lifelong liberal," said she took her stance against school closure "in defense of children, which should have been a progressive value," but soon realized it was not a welcome idea at the company. 

"I kept my advocacy to schools because I knew all that other stuff was controversial, but I thought we could agree on kids," Sey told Tucker Carlson. Her work included being vocal on social media, leading rallies and writing op-eds with data to back her point. 

Advocates for keeping schools open during the pandemic were deemed racists and accused of wanting to "murder teachers," Sey explained. Soon people were emailing the CEO and head of human resources and calling for boycotts of the company.

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"The feedback was when you speak, you speak on behalf of the company and I said, but I don’t," the former executive said as she recalled being told multiple times to cool it. "I’m just a mom. I mean, I know I have this big job, but I am not saying it as the Levi’s brand president. I am saying it as a public school mom in San Francisco." 

A critical turning point occurred after Sey moved her family to Denver and appeared on "The Ingraham Angle" to discuss opening America’s schools. While the company said there was nothing wrong with her commentary, Sey said she was also told she should not have spoken out on Fox News. 

"In the fall of that year, I was told I could be the CEO if I just cool it in my advocacy," the former brand president told "Tucker Carlson Today." "Schools at this point had been open for a hot second, two weeks ... They needed to do a background check, not just on me, but on my husband." 

Prior to the background check, the former executive told the company they would think her social media was a "gray area" and her inclinations were right. Due to her position being the "succession role," she was not able to keep her job if she was not eligible for the next. 

After being told there would be severance, she resigned publicly. While she never received her requested severance package, she believes it would have come with a non-disclosure agreement, despite company denial. 

"I wanted to be able to talk about the terms of the separation because I wanted to be able to tell you the story... In addition to the children being harmed, this idea that we can’t hold different views and work together, like the idea that I couldn’t have this view and work in this company is so disturbing to me that I did not want to sign my right away to talk about that," Sey argued. "I wouldn’t do it." 

Research from the Department of Education shows that math and reading scores declined more during the pandemic than they have in decades, according to a previous Fox News report. Tony Kinnett, the executive director of the heterodox education publication Chalkboard Review, told Fox News Digital that some children are coming back to school "several grade levels behind." 

Sey suggests reasonable conversations about school closures may have prevented their devastating effect on children.

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"I want it to be ok for us to talk to each other, to debate ideas," Sey implored. "I really, in my heart of hearts, believe if we could have had a public conversation about the schools where people like me, invested parents, doctors... instead of us being vilified, we could have had a reasoned conservation, I think we would have gotten to the right answer much sooner." 

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