Texas National Guard holding rifles and driving humvees arrive at the El Paso border

A large Texas National Guard presence arrived at the southern El Paso border overnight as Texas city braces for an even larger influx of immigrants once Title 42 ends.

Troops with rifles stood guard on the US side of the border in front of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Tuesday morning, against the backdrop of a line of humvees.

A new fence was also erected on the bank of the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from crossing with the pandemic-era removal policy, Title 42, just hours away from ending.

A small group of migrants remained on the Mexican side of the border in front of El Paso in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

DailyMail.com got their first glimpse of the border with the newly reinforced fence and troop presence:

The deployment comes after thousands of migrants have crossed into El Paso over the past week. New fences were also put up along the river bank to stem the flow of illegal immigration.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent members of his state’s National Guardsmen to El Paso Monday to station along the border amid warning that crossings along the entire border could increase to 14,000 or more every day once Title 42 ends at midnight.

The Texas National Guard has played a very important role in helping with the immigration crisis. Troops have helped process more than 1,000 illegal immigrants every day in border cities like Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley.

The deployment to El Paso comes after a week of higher-than-usual crossing patterns in the West Texas city. The largest caravan in history included more than 1,000 migrants who crossed into El Paso last weekend.

Migrants have overwhelmed the Border Patrol system in El Paso and have invaded the city.

At least several hundred were forced to sleep on the streets in freezing temperatures after facilities, both government and private, quickly filled up.

What will happen at the border in the next 24 hours is up in the air after the Supreme Court issued a stay Monday night on the end of Title 42, giving the Biden administration until 5:00 p.m. Tuesday to respond.

The deadline is just hours before Title 42 was set to expire at the start of the day at midnight on Wednesday, December 21, just four days before Christmas.

The Texas National Guard has played a huge role in mitigating the immigration crisis at the southern border, helping to process at least 1,000 migrants every day.

At least 100 soldiers stationed near the border in El Paso Monday night through Tuesday morning

National Guard members also installed new fencing overnight along the riverbank.

Title 42 was signed into law at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 by then-President Donald Trump. The health-related policy was intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 from crossing the border into the US, but the policy had the added benefit for border communities of keeping illegal immigration at bay for at least nearly three years.

With Title 42 in effect, Border Patrol and immigration police were able to remove migrants without hearing their asylum claims.

The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Oscar Leeser, warned Monday that there are an estimated 20,000 migrants in Ciudad Juárez prepared to cross into the United States.

Even with the future of Title 42 unknown, the city is preparing to adapt to a potential border rush. El Paso is turning large buildings into shelters as the Red Cross brings in 10,000 cots.

Local officials are also preparing to charter buses and transport immigrants to neighboring cities in Texas or other states.