Christian militia group steps in to help besieged border officials amid massive migrant crisis

Patriots for America, a militia group, is stepping up to help overwhelmed law enforcement who are struggling to cope with a historic migrant crisis at the southern border.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, with a focus on immigration. He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter: @AdamShawNY

The group arrived at the border last year, conducts monthly rotations and has been working with law enforcement, including the sheriff of Kinney County. It is part of a number of actions counties across the state, as well as the state itself, are taking to deal with the surge in illegal immigrants coming across the border.  

Just this week, Kinney and a number of other counties have declared the crisis at the border an "invasion" and are urging the state and the federal government to do more to stop the crisis. In May alone, there were more than 239,000 migrant encounters at the border. Border Patrol agents have frequently spoken about being overwhelmed, and the agency's head has acknowledged the low morale agents from which agents are suffering.