Posted on 09/20/2021 4:06:07 PM PDT by blam
Some of the thousands of illegal immigrants who have amassed near the Texas border are leaving the United States, going back to Mexico to pick up supplies or avoid being deported back to their home countries.
Haitians and others were witnessed Monday crossing the Rio Grande River to enter Acuna, Mexico, as they consider their options following a U.S. crackdown on the illegal immigrant camp under the international bridge just north of the border in Del Rio.
Phanel, a Haitian who has been living in Chile for three years, was one of the immigrants who went to Acuna. He told The Epoch Times he was stocking up on supplies, including water and fruit, after hearing around camp that everybody who stayed would get deported.
Phanel, an illegal immigrant from Haiti, points to supplies he picked up in Acuna, Mexico, on Sept. 20, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Phanel, who declined to give his last name, said he was considering what to do next.
Yaneth, 32, whose husband is Haitian, also expressed concern about being deported. She planned to venture back to Del Rio to get her family, including her partner, and return to Acuna to try to formulate a plan.
Yaneth, an illegal immigrant, is seen in Acuna, Mexico, on Sept. 20, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Recounting a harrowing journey from Chile, Yaneth said that most women who travel through the Darien jungle get raped. “I’m not going back,” she said, adding that the family would likely go to a different part of the U.S.-Mexico border and try to cross there.
People carry supplies from Acuna, Mexico, on their way back to Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 20, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Nader Alth, 39, was not as certain of heading to a different spot on the border. The Haitian native, who was with his 9-year-old son, was looking for a shelter in Mexico and said he’d stay there for now.
“It’s not an option to back to Haiti,” he told The Epoch Times.
“I can’t go back, they’ll kill me.”
Nader Alth, an illegal immigrant from Haiti, is seen in Acuna, Mexico, on Sept. 20, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
The Del Rio area has become the epicenter of the Biden administration’s border crisis, which has built up since the president took office in January and abruptly reversed or altered key Trump-era policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols, the border wall, and the expulsion of illegal immigrant children through pandemic-era powers.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to the area on Monday to get an on-the-ground operational update and see firsthand the huge, litter-ridden camp that sprung up under the international bridge in the Texas town.
Mayorkas said the surge in immigrants was “rather sudden” and “rather dramatic,” prompting a large scale response that has included moving some 6,500 immigrants to other parts of the border in the last several days to ease the burden on the overtaxed agents in the Del Rio Border Sector while sending approximately 400 agents and officers to the sector.
From Mexico side of Rio Grande: A new border crossing area has formed downstream between the US and Mexico as the weir dam was blocked by US law enforcement.
Many leaving US to avoid deportation, others getting supplies from Acuna, Mexico. pic.twitter.com/V5y4ZAL3Gi
— Charlotte Cuthbertson (@charlottecuthbo) September 20, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security conducted three repatriation flights from Del Rio to Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday, flying 327 Haitian nationals back to their home country. The agency expects to conduct one to three such flights per day for a while, and is attempting to secure additional planes to carry out more flights.
Mayorkas denounced what he described as “false information” driving the surge. He said the message to people thinking about making the journey from the south is that:
“Our borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey.”
“if you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned. Your journey will not succeed and you will be endangering your life and your family’s life,” he said, adding that many of the immigrants would be deported.
Biden administration officials have emphasized the message for months, but it’s been undercut by some of the worst border numbers in history and by officials allowing a large portion of the immigrants to stay in the United States as well as the rollback of various immigration enforcement schemes, such as the protocols.
Mayorkas later denounced smugglers, saying: “It is tragic to see families, vulnerable individuals, who have been deceived by treacherous and exploitative smuggling organizations. It is tragic and it is heartbreaking.”
WHEN WILL SOMEONE DO SOMETHING?
That’s not true they’re still there. And increasing in numbers by the day. Remember you’ve got the Caribbean folk coming as well. That title is misleading.
Vice President Harris is in charge.. so that tells you everything you need to know.
For being so poor they sure do travel a lot. 😐
They’re going to let them right in and the media will call us racist for wanting to enforce the law.
All it took was one whip? Gotta git me one of those.
Oh?...McConnell and McCarthy...
Butt, butt, butt........
IF this isn’t just a headfake organized by 0bama, and spread by the media-
They will be smarter next time, and sneak in a few at a time, and not congregate in one place.
Actually I can’t figure out why they did that in the first place. A mass invasion all at once and hanging out in just one place, just draws attention and people scream for a solution.
What is ‘the other hand doing’ while people are distracted by this big gesture?
RETREAT RETREAT
Is Horizontal bringing the hammer down? Could be bad optics.
Will not end well. Mexico is not equipped to handle the Hatian retreat. The narcotrafficantes control that land in Mexico. They will not tolerate it.
Because they are complicit. There is blame and both sides and shame on neither side. Therein lies the problem.
Of course, the last time that the government got serious about enforcing immigration laws was when Eisenhower was President.
*on^^^
Where’s that Seinfeld “That’s a shame” gif at.
Deporting 2% of 20,000 is not deporting. But the liars in Washington are trying to sell Americans on that sack of crap.
Yep, starting with McConnell and McCarthy.
Where there’s a whip, there’s a way.
Both parties cheated out the one guy who was doing something about it, because he was doing something about it.
They have been importing a permanent Democrat majority for 30 years.
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