Texas authorities have charged nine migrants for involvment in the assault on National Guard troops and storming of the border in El Paso, Texas, last Thursday a state government source told The Post.
The charges the migrants face include inciting a riot, damage of property of over $2,500 and assault on members of the Guard, the source said.
Texas authorities first arrested Honduran national Junior Evaristo-Benitez, 21, who is now charged with assault on a public servant, a third-degree felony, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Eliot Torres.
Evaristo-Benitez, another of the nine charged, allegedly stomped on a soldier’s knee “purposefully and with malice,” according to Border Report.
The migrants who stormed the border had torn down concertina wire used to prevent illegal entries, and made their way to the border wall.
National Guard soldiers stopped them and amassed them into smaller groups. Some became frustrated with the soldiers after they began turning them back to Mexico, at which point the stampede, caught on camera by a Post photographer, happened.
