10,000 Migrants, Many Haitian, Packed Under Texas Bridge
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published September 17, 2021 | 11:21 PM
More than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, were being held under a bridge in Texas on Friday, US officials said, posing a new challenge to President Joe Biden's immigration policy
Houston, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Sep, 2021 ) :More than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, were being held under a bridge in Texas on Friday, US officials said, posing a new challenge to President Joe Biden's immigration policy.
Bruno Lozano, the mayor of Del Rio on the US-Mexico border, said that the migrants were crowded in an area controlled by the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) beneath the Del Rio International Bridge.
Many of them were Haitians hoping to stay in the United States as their country suffers after a large earthquake and continuing political turmoil, Lozano said.
The mayor said there were 10,503 people under the bridge on Thursday evening, up from around 8,000 earlier in the day.
Video footage showed families sitting and sleeping in the open air, awaiting processing by the CBP, which has been overwhelmed by migrants crossing the border from Mexico as well as tens of thousands of refugees from Afghanistan.
"The border patrol right now is so overwhelmed with the influx of migrants in the Del Rio sector," Lozano said.
He said, besides those under the bridge, there were another 2,000-3,000 held in detention by CBP in the area.
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