Immigrants frustrated after waiting on the southern side of the United States border wall staged a mass crossing late Tuesday, captured in a video that has since gone viral.

Several hundred immigrants stormed past Mexican authorities, chanting and cheering in a chaotic scene as they paraded toward the border, intent on crossing and being admitted through locked gates in the wall.

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Mexican officials did nothing to stop the caravan. One officer smoked as he watched the group walk past him and others watched the group march by.

The crossing came just a day after local Mexican media reported that as many as 3,000 immigrants from South America and Central America had arrived in Juarez on freight trains that carried them north.

Immigrants apprehended by Border Patrol are typically allowed through the gates and then held at the border for several hours while agents arrange transportation to processing centers, where each person is interviewed, fingerprinted, and given the chance to shower and eat.

Border Patrol, a federal law enforcement organization, takes immigrants into custody even if they are outside a fence or barrier because they are still illegally present in the country and have a right to seek asylum.

The Border Patrol's El Paso region has encountered an average of 1,100 illegal immigrants daily in the past week and had an average of 5,600 people in custody, according to city data provided online.

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The city has seen more than 4,000 people released onto its streets in the past week. Local nonprofit organizations and charities are overwhelmed sheltering and providing assistance to immigrants, prompting people to sleep on the streets.

Immigrants who are released from custody are allowed to remain in the United States through removal proceedings.