AUSTIN, Texas — The small border town of Eagle Pass is facing its own Del Rio bridge crisis exactly two years after thousands of immigrants illegally crossed the Mexico border and were held under a bridge for days.

The town of 30,000 residents has seen thousands of noncitizens swimming and wading across the Rio Grande from Mexican city Piedras Negras in the last several days, according to five federal law enforcement agents who spoke with the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.

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Videos shared with the Washington Examiner show streams of immigrants being led across the river into Eagle Pass overnight earlier this week, as well as roughly 2,000 people being held under an international bridge due to a lack of facilities and transportation.

"We are getting hit right now," a Border Patrol agent based in Eagle Pass said. "They're collapsing operations."

Approximately 1,500 people crossed the river Sunday into Monday. As of Wednesday, 2,000 people were in custody, and many were sitting under an international bridge in Eagle Pass due to a lack of space at regional Border Patrol facilities, according to a second Border Patrol agent, a senior official in the field.

The Border Patrol's Del Rio Sector, which includes Eagle Pass, "is out of control," according to the senior agent.

"Del Rio Sector has over 2K on the ground," the same agent said on Wednesday, based on the latest data available to federal law enforcement officials.

The sudden flood forced Mayor Rolando Salinas Jr. to declare an emergency on Tuesday due to the mass arrests and releases of immigrants directly on the street across the small city. The disaster declaration will remain in effect through Sept. 25.

Eagle Pass Police Chief Federico Garza Jr. told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that the mass crossings have triggered Border Patrol to release processed immigrants into the community immediately, directly on the street, not to the town's sole nonprofit group, which is overwhelmed.

"I'm seeing them walking the street with a bag in their hand. They're lost. They don't know what to do," Garza said in a phone call.

The endless line of people crossed through the river in a single-file fashion, not far from where Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) had ordered the state military to install a floating barrier to block illegal crossings.

Another video exclusively obtained by the Washington Examiner shows rows of concertina wire on the ground and a parade of immigrants walking along the U.S. shoreline in search of a break in the wire where they can walk into the United States.

The influx of thousands of people has forced Border Patrol to hold people outside under the bridge until there is space and transportation to move people for processing.

Two years ago this week, roughly 20,000 illegal immigrants crossed into Del Rio in a matter of days and were held by Border Patrol under an international bridge. The sudden surge of mostly Haitian citizens made national news as the Biden administration struggled to respond to the mass incursion.

The illegal immigration crisis that erupted at the U.S.-Mexico border in early 2021, shortly after President Joe Biden took office, has gone unresolved and, in recent weeks, has taken a turn for the worse as more noncitizens attempt to enter the country.

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Border Patrol officials across the 2,000-mile southern border have shared with the Washington Examiner accounts of illegal immigrants flooding across the Rio Grande day and night.

Customs and Border Protection did not respond to a request for comment.