DHS tracked Haitian migration for months but failed to predict surge at the border

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As multiple U.S. federal agencies continue to move thousands of Haitian migrants from a makeshift encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande River this week, Department of Homeland Security officials said Thursday that they were also “actively investigating” how approximately 15,000 Haitian migrants were able quickly make their way through Mexico to Del Rio, Texas, without being detected by U.S. intelligence.

On a background call with reporters Thursday, an official with the DHS said that the department has been “closely following the movement of migrants through the hemisphere.” Many of the current influx of Haitian migrants reportedly traveled to the U.S. from South America.

“We did not, however, have any intelligence that suggested we would be seeing the surge in numbers we saw over the past week,” the official said.

Based on a number of internal government documents obtained by Yahoo News, it appears that the Biden administration has been tracking migration from Haiti to the U.S. since as early as March. But intelligence reports and situational assessments produced by a number of different agencies within the DHS repeatedly downplayed the likelihood of a surge in Haitian migrants headed for the U.S., even as conditions on the ground in Haiti continued to devolve.

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