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Thousands of migrants huddle in squalid conditions under Texas bridge
The U.S. Border Patrol said that more than 9,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, were crowded under a bridge outside the border community of Del Rio on Thursday, part of a massive surge in migration across the Rio Grande this week that has overwhelmed the authorities and caused significant delays in processing the arrivals.
The temporary camp has grown with staggering speed in recent days, from just a few hundred people earlier in the week. The authorities and city officials said they expected thousands more to cross the ankle-deep river between Mexico and Del Rio in coming days.
Mayor of Del RÃo Texas calls to the Department of Homeland Security for Assistance as another 20,000 are in route by the end of today.
While waiting, the migrants have access to 22 portable toilets but no running water. They mostly feed themselves with food bought in Mexico, running back and forth across the Rio Grande.
..well my goodness....what's the problem here....that only amounts to about 2 1/2 million "migrants" a year
Another 200,000-plus migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in August - a 317 per cent increase from 2020
"A Department of Homeland Security source previewed the latest numbers for the network, saying that there were 208,887 encounters last month.
That is fewer than the 212,000 encounters in July, but still represents a 317 per cent increase in crossing from August 2020, when there were 50,014 encounters. "
"In August, 18,847 unaccompanied children crossed into the United States"
Fix it as a supply and demand problem. Erecting walls doesn’t fix the fact that life is good here and life where most of these folks came from is awful. The fact that people knowingly risk their lives and pay good money to questionable coyotes is proof enough that the benefits outweigh the risks so much, that little else matters. Fix that mismatch, and you’ll quit having big illegal immigration policies. That’s economics 101.
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