Migrants can be seen packed into an overflowing Texas processing center in shocking footage that lays bare the spiraling southern border crisis splitting America at the seams.

The video, from Border Patrol’s Central Processing Center in El Paso, shows 750 migrants – who are mostly men – in just one room waiting to be vetted on their way into the US.

The room, which was build for just 120, was littered with makeshift beds and blankets as agents struggled to contend with the huge influx of asylum seekers.

US Rep. Tony Gonzales said the entire center had six times its maximum capacity – 6,000 verses its usual 1,000 – when the footage was taken.

The overwhelming numbers forced Texas to send a third busload of migrants to Washington DC on Sunday where they were dropped off down the road from Kamala Harris’ home.

The Vice President had just hours earlier claimed the end of Title 42 on Thursday was ‘going rather smoothly’.

Video showed men stuffed into small rooms – with capacities of 120 but trying to hold 750 – together at the facility

Officials said that the building’s max capacity is at around 1,000 but that they were filled with about 6,000 people

US Rep Gonzales shared the shocking new footage of migrants in the El Paso processing center with Fox News, as he warned the state was struggling to cope with the influx of migrants after Title 42 expired.

He said on Friday: ‘You may not see a thousand people rushing through the border, the images everyone is looking for, but I guarantee you there are thousands of people in these processing centers.’

He warned that some of the migrants held in these centers had illegally been kept there for 18 days – when they are only supposed to be held for 72 hours.

He called the 6,000 being held at the processing center an ‘astronomical’ number and warned there were more at others across the southern border.

Gonzales continued: ‘There’s a second soft-sided facility that will open maybe next month. They’re trying to build capacity.’

He added: ‘I think the biggest issue, too, is getting ICE involved. ICE has to be able to expedite these folks.

‘Don’t send them to D.C. or San Francisco… or even the VP’s front door, as fun as that is. You send them back to their country of origin.’

But it comes as another busload of migrants were sent to Washington DC and dropped off near to VP Harris’s home.

Vice President Kamala Harris claims that she’s heard the end of Title 42 is ‘going rather smoothly’ even as border governors have dropped off migrants at her own home

A third convoy of migrants has been sent to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington DC home, after a weekend in which she declared the end of Title 42 was ‘going rather smoothly’ in an interview

They were spotted exiting a bus at the Naval Observatory in the nation’s capital, just yards from her home at Number One Observatory Circle.

Footage showed them streaming off the vehicle before grabbing their belongings from the storage space underneath.

It is the third time buses full of migrants have been sent from Texas to the vice president’s home, following similar instances last week and at Christmas.

Over the course of Thursday and Friday, at least 70 migrants were dropped off on Harris’s doorstep in Washington DC.

Greg Abbott, the governor, has sent at least 17,000 migrants from Texas to DC, New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia since April 2022.

Over 9,200 have been sent to DC, and Abbott defended the move, saying it was designed to share the burden.

‘The reason why we are bussing migrants across the country is because small little towns on the border like Del Rio and Eagle Pass, they have no capacity to deal with the number of people coming across the border,’ he told Fox News.

‘And we have to relieve the congestion at small communities and bus them to larger communities.’

Migrants are pictured on Thursday disembarking from a bus in Washington DC, having travelled from Texas

The Naval Observatory is home to the residence of the vice president

Video on Thursday evening showed around 30 migrants disembarking from buses parked outside the Naval Observatory.

The clip was filmed shortly before Title 42 border rules were lifted – a move which many expect will spark a surge in migrants attempting to cross. 

It was unclear whether she was at home: earlier on Thursday she attended an event at the National Museum of Asian Art in DC.

On Wednesday, the bus carrying 40 migrants arrived at her gates.

The mainly Venezuelan men, women and children were received by SAMU First Response and Mutual Aid, which was set to provide them emergency shelter.

DC’s temporary lodging program has reached capacity, with there being no more space as of last week, according to the District’s Department of Human Services, with 1,249 migrants from 370 families spread across three area hotels.

The pressure on the system – with 10,000 migrants arriving a day at the U.S.-Mexico border – comes as the pandemic-era border restrictions, Title 42, are lifted.

Under Title 42, migrants could be immediately expelled back to Mexico or their home country.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent keeps watch as immigrants enter a vehicle to be transported from a makeshift camp between border walls, between the U.S. and Mexico, on Sunday

Immigrants gather at a makeshift camp stranded between border walls between the U.S. and Mexico

Meanwhile Harris spent her weekend in the wealthy Atlanta suburb of Buckhead at a fundraiser for the Democratic Party of Georgia, the third time she’s visited the swing state this year.

The state’s Republican Party called it ‘deplorable’ Harris was ‘coming to Atlanta for a fundraiser campaigning while the border crisis is overflowing and we have out-of-control inflation’ in a statement.

Responding to that criticism, Harris said everything she’s heard from the border crisis is apparently fine.

‘I hear that everything in the last couple of a days is going rather smoothly given what the concerns were,’ Harris said.

She then doubled down on Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’ choice to blame Congress. 

‘The issue of immigration falls squarely within the responsibility of the United States Congress. We’ve done what we can but the Congress must pass legislation,’ she added.  

The chair of the Georgia Democratic Party wouldn’t tell WSB-TV the exact amount Harris raised, only saying ‘it was a lot.’

Migrants have been dropped off at various liberal enclaves, including Harris’ home, since last year by Republican governors

The Biden administration argued all pandemic-era policies should be lifted, and at midnight Eastern Time on Thursday Title 42 was revoked.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz was in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday evening to take a look at the border crisis for himself.

Cruz appeared furious as he was surrounded by members of the Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard’, accusing the Biden administration of ‘deliberately’ creating the situation.

‘We are witnessing an absolute travesty unfolding on our southern border,’ Cruz began in a four minute rant.

‘On Monday we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border – the highest level in history. 

‘On Tuesday we apprehended over 10,000 people on the border again the highest level in history.

‘There are right now, where we’re standing, more than 22,000 people camped just south of the border, getting ready to come across,’ Cruz explained.

‘Just in this location, in less than a month, we’ve had over 35,000 Venezuelans cross illegally just right here.’

On Thursday evening, Cruz predicted the situation would continue to worsen

Biden admitted there would likely be chaos at first, and his Homeland Security Secretary warned migrants not to believe the ‘lies of people smugglers’, insisting that the border was not open.

Mexico’s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said last week his officials reported people traffickers telling migrants that the border was being opened to all.

‘We have 24,000 Border Patrol Agents and Officers at the Southwest Border and have surged thousands of troops and contractors, and over a thousand asylum officers to help enforce our laws,’ said Mayorkas on Thursday.

‘Do not believe the lies of smugglers. The border is not open.’

Mobile phones are charged at Juventud 2000, a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, May 11. As the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions, migrants are adapting to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings

Migrants get electricity from an illegal connection for their tents on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Sunday

The Title 42 rules had been in place since March 2020. 

They allowed border officials to quickly return asylum seekers back over the border on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

U.S. authorities have unveiled strict new measures to replace Title 42, which crack down on illegal crossings while also setting up legal pathways for migrants who apply online, seek a sponsor and undergo background checks.

If successful, the reforms could fundamentally alter how migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pandemic-era limits on asylum have been rarely discussed among many of tens of thousands of migrants massed on Mexico’s border with the United States.

Their eyes were – and are – fixed instead on a new U.S. government mobile app that grants 1,000 people daily an appointment to cross the border and seek asylum while living in the U.S.

With demand far outstripping available slots, the app has been an exercise in frustration for many – and a test of the Biden administration’s strategy of coupling new legal paths to entry with severe consequences for those who don’t follow them.