Authorities beefed up security at Texas border

Border Patrol agents are working with other law enforcement agencies and the military to put additional security barriers in place at the two ports of entry in the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, according to a release from CBP.

At a news briefing, Friday Customs and Border Protection officials warned the 1,800 Central American migrants being housed across the border in Piedras Negras not to try and cross illegally, despite a long wait to be processed.

The additional material -- storage containers, traffic barriers, and razor wire -- will "act as impediments to illegal crossers," Customs and Border Protection said.

"This is an unprecedented effort to try to keep these borders safe, to keep our communities safe, to keep the United States safe," Del Rio Sector Division Chief Louie Collins told reporters Friday.

The Mexican government continues to keep the migrants inside a fenced-in warehouse a short distance from the border.

Texas DPS troopers, 250 military personnel and hundreds of National Guard members will help to reinforce the border and prevent anyone from crossing illegally.

The migrants want to request asylum, but the port of entry there can only process 16 to 20 people a day.

Border agents are warning them not to try to cross the Rio Grande

Earlier border Patrol agents picked up a family of five Honduran nationals in the river near Eagle Pass on Friday morning. The two adults with three children were wading through tough currents as they attempted to cross near the Camino Real International Bridge, the agency said.

"Those children were rescued in the middle of the river because they got out into the middle of the river and they couldn't go forward and they couldn't go backward. So, we had to rescue those folks, it is treacherous it is dangerous," said Louie Wayne Collins of Border Patrol.

Some migrants say they were lied to by smugglers who told them they would be allowed to enter the U.S.

At Friday’s briefing, Customs and Border Protection officials said migrants who have what's called "credible fear" of returning to their home countries will likely end up in detention facilities in the U.S.