Caravan descending on border could preview migrant rush to sneak into US if Trump wins election

A group of 2,000 migrants making its way to the U.S. border could be the start of a wave of attempted crossings as the presidential election nears, according to one expert.

"I think whatever deal we struck with the government of Mexico to slow the flow leading up to the election to make the numbers look better for Harris' campaign ends the day after the election," Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital, referring to the Biden administration's coordination with the Mexican government earlier this year on executive action that allowed the president to temporarily suspend entry into the country.

The comments come after roughly 2,000 migrants departed from Mexico's border on Sunday, according to a report from CBS Austin, with some admitting that they are making the journey now over fears about the result of the presidential election.

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"Whoever wins (in the U.S. election) should not close the doors to us, [they] should give us the support we need, because we are all really going through a bad time," one of the migrants told The Associated Press.

Ries expects that flow to intensify between Election Day and the inauguration if former President Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris, noting that migrants will fear Trump will do more to close off the southern border.

"We saw this for Trump's first term, when numbers of people tried to get in before he came into office, because they knew he would be enforcement-minded," Ries said, adding that a Trump victory this time would result in "quite the jump in numbers" for illegal crossings.