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That's a lot of people.Thousands of Haitian migrants fleeing disaster and unrest seek asylum at Del Rio bridge
With an estimated 12,000 migrants already crowded under the international bridge and thousands more expected, Del Rios mayor declared an emergency Friday and requested state assistance.
by Uriel J. García and Jolie McCullough Sept. 17, 2021 Updated: 7 PM Central
DEL RIO Five days after Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by a group of foreign mercenaries on July 7, 29-year-old Stelin Jean decided to flee the country with his wife and two children traveling to Bolivia, where many Haitians have arrived recently before starting an arduous overland trek to the United States.
The family was in Panama last month when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, destroying thousands of homes and killing more than 2,000 people. Jean said some of his family members were injured in the earthquake, which only increased their sense of urgency to make it to the United States.
The family has joined an estimated 12,000 migrants who in recent days have arrived at the border and are now waiting under the Del Rio international bridge, about 150 miles west of San Antonio, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Most are from Haiti and are seeking asylum in the U.S.
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sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)mountain grammy
(26,573 posts)And let them in. Theyre refugees fleeing violence and America has a labor shortage Let them stay.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Emma Lazarus is turning in her grave.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Eight flights a day.
Biden is adamant about no one coming in because of COVID-19
Haiti has very very low vaccinated rate.
Moebym
(989 posts)The country received a shipment of 500k Moderna doses in July, but the pace, while initially high, has slowed because of the earthquake and political unrest stemming from the assassination of their president.
Source: Miami Herald
It's a terrible situation all around. On the one hand, with the rise of the Delta variant in our own country, deporting asylum seekers from a country with less than 1% of its population vaccinated makes some sense, but on the other hand, we're sending them back to a nation in shambles and deportation means they can't simply turn around and come back...
I don't envy anyone in charge of having to make decisions such as this and won't pretend that I know the answers.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Democrat or Republican the policy has always been the same. It is just the excuses that change.
Peregrine Took
(7,408 posts)They should be sent back even though they came to the country legally?
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)We tend to ignore this.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Moebym
(989 posts)They're still recovering from a devastating earthquake and the assassination of their president earlier this year, so the pace has been understandably slow.