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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumshow did 8000 Haitians get to Del Rio TX?
that's wierd unless they swim really well....
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)getagrip_already
(14,250 posts)not likely anyway.
A lot of hatians have temporary legal status again; they don't need to go through mexico. Mexico wouldn't be friendly to them in any case. They don't speak spanish and they don't have money.
More likely someone tricked them into going there or they were dumped there by tx officials.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)From: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haitian-migrants-texas-del-rio-international-bridge/
TheProle
(2,101 posts)Several of them told Reuters they followed routes shared amongst each other on WhatsApp.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Of those options, via Mexico seems the most likely ... though I guess if Del Rio has an airport that gets flights from Haiti that's also possible.
Celerity
(42,672 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/haitian-migrants-mexico-texas-border/2021/09/16/4da1e366-16fe-11ec-ae9a-9c36751cf799_story.html
DEL RIO, Tex. Thousands of Haitian migrants who have crossed the Rio Grande in recent days are sleeping outdoors under a border bridge in South Texas, creating a humanitarian emergency and a logistical challenge U.S. agents describe as unprecedented.
Authorities in Del Rio say more than 10,000 migrants have arrived at the impromptu camp, and they are expecting more in the coming days. The sudden influx has presented the Biden administration with a new border emergency at a time when illegal crossings have reached a 20-year high and Department of Homeland Security officials are straining to accommodate and resettle more than 60,000 Afghan evacuees.
The migrants arriving to Del Rio appear to be part of a larger wave of Haitians heading northward, many of whom arrived in Brazil and other South American nations after the 2010 earthquake. They are on the move again, embarking on a grueling, dangerous journey to the United States with smuggling organizations managing the trip, according to border authorities and refugee groups.
More than 29,000 Haitians have arrived over the past 11 months, the latest Customs and Border Protection figures show, including some in mixed-nationality families with children born in Brazil, Chile or other South American nations. They have trekked through the jungles of Panamas Darien Gap, navigated migrant camps and criminal gangs in Central America, and dodged border guards and troops along the highways of southern Mexico. Some say the economic toll of the pandemic pushed them to leave, while others see a more welcoming U.S. administration offering them a fleeting opportunity to reach the United States.
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LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Ritabert
(644 posts)...with 10 flights a week back to Haiti. Afghan allies take precedence at the moment.
Next week, ICE plans to fly eight deportation flights to Haiti and will then increase that to 10 per week, according to a document obtained by NBC News.
As more than 10,000 mainly Haitian migrants shelter under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, as part of a new surge of migration to that stretch of the U.S. border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti over the next week, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News.
Next week, ICE plans to fly eight deportation flights to Haiti and will then increase that number to 10 per week, according to one of the documents. A few deportation flights just restarted in the past few days in response to the surge of Haitians.
The flights had previously been paused by the Biden administration in response to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti on Aug. 14. A single deportation flight can hold around 135 migrants, Department of Homeland Security officials said.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-admin-step-deportation-haitians-address-migrant-surge-documents-say-n1279449
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)malaise
(267,834 posts)and I'm serious - nice cheap labor link ups.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)malaise
(267,834 posts)and churches in the US, particularly but not only in the South. They promise their faithful jobs in the US in the hotel industry, meat industry, big farms and other industries. There are rumors about big money funding this criminality.
There was a lot of speculation about the origin of those very convenient Slobfather ''caravans".
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Presence in Haiti?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Dream Girl
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trof
(54,255 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)the Rio Grande.
Until people aren't successful getting in, they are going to keep coming.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)ChazII
(6,198 posts)for the smile your Bugs Bunny clip brought.