Thousands of Haitians camp in Texas across the US-Mexico border – News

Immigrants have been entering the United States via the Del Rio area (Texas) since Tuesday and have loaded U.S. immigration officials as they camp under the international bridge that connects the city with the Ciudad Aquina on the Mexican side while waiting for asylum. Applications to be processed.

These thousands of immigrants, according to local officials, are sleeping outside and lack basic services. Conditions threaten to create a new humanitarian emergency on the southern border, which has recorded the arrival of illegal immigrants since Joe Biden took office as US president in January, which has already become the focus of a political crisis.

According to the Washington Post, many of those who arrived in this wave fled Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, particularly to Brazil and Chile, but the crisis created by the Govt-19 epidemic has now taken them to the United States.

The U.S. has sent border patrol reinforcements to Del Rio to operate the camp and more immigrants will be able to cross the border in the coming days due to uncertainty.

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday announced the closure of 6 border crossings with Mexico. He then backtracked on the tone and said there would only be state agencies to reduce attendance.

Democrat Del Rio Mayor Bruno “Ralph” Lozano urged Joe Biden’s government to “recognize that there is a real-time border crisis right now with serious health and safety consequences.”

Describing the camp as a “slum”, Lozano warned that if agents focused on the site, the city’s 400-kilometer border would be left unprotected. EFE

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