WASHINGTON – The US government has decided to send 400 border police officers to Del Rio, where thousands of migrants they camped after crossing the Rio Grande. The Biden administration prepares the launch of an airlift which should leave within the day. The customs and border protection agency has begun transferring people to different sorting centers along the border.
But the launch of the expulsion maneuvers does not seem to have deterred Haitian migrants, who are fleeing particularly negative economic conditions at home and dream of an acceptable future in the United States. On Friday alone, another two thousand people arrived near the Del Rio bridge, according to the Department of Homeland Security. At the moment, local authorities’ estimates speak of at least 14,500 migrants, but the number is set to increase. The encamped migrants enter and leave Mexico to procure supplies and materials for the construction of emergency shelters under the bridge. The border stretch near Del Rio has become the second busiest sector by border patrols this year, with nearly 215,000 arrests out of 1.47 million across the border since October.
The Haitians – writes the Wall Street Journal – they arrived at a steady pace throughout the year in this remote border region west of San Antonio, sparking a new humanitarian crisis. And this in the year that illegal border crossings reached their highest level in two decades.
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The Biden administration wants to repatriate Del Rio’s Haitians on flights to Haiti on the basis of a health measure from theera Trump linked to the pandemic known as Title 42, which gives the government the authority to reject any migrant caught crossing the border illegally, regardless of their country of origin. However, a Washington federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Biden administration violates immigration law by using this measure, but suspended the effect of its decision for two weeks. On Friday, the administration appealed the decision before a higher court.
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