Thousands of Haitian migrants fleeing disaster and unrest seek asylum at Del Rio bridge

[babylonsister]

That's a lot of people.

Thousands of Haitian migrants fleeing disaster and unrest seek asylum at Del Rio bridge
With an estimated 12,000 migrants already crowded under the international bridge and thousands more expected, Del Rio’s mayor declared an emergency Friday and requested state assistance.
by Uriel J. García and Jolie McCullough Sept. 17, 2021 Updated: 7 PM Central


DEL RIO — Five days after Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by a group of foreign mercenaries on July 7, 29-year-old Stelin Jean decided to flee the country with his wife and two children — traveling to Bolivia, where many Haitians have arrived recently before starting an arduous overland trek to the United States.

The family was in Panama last month when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, destroying thousands of homes and killing more than 2,000 people. Jean said some of his family members were injured in the earthquake, which only increased their sense of urgency to make it to the United States.

“There’s people killing each other in Haiti, there’s just no justice,” said Jean, who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday afternoon after a two-month trek through the jungles of South America and then crossed the Rio Grande at Del Rio to claim asylum. “I just want to live a calm life without any problems, I want to live somewhere where I know there’s justice.”

The family has joined an estimated 12,000 migrants who in recent days have arrived at the border and are now waiting under the Del Rio international bridge, about 150 miles west of San Antonio, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Most are from Haiti and are seeking asylum in the U.S.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/17/texas-border-del-rio-migrants/

[sprinkleeninow]

1. The other day reported to be 8,000. Now 12k.

[msongs]

2. so why does mexico not welcome them? nt

[Renew Deal]

14. Do they want to stay in Mexico?

[mountain grammy]

3. Start processing them

And let them in. They’re refugees fleeing violence and America has a labor shortage Let them stay.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Latest is that we have upped deportations of these people...

Emma Lazarus is turning in her grave.

[secondwind]

5. I think they are being flown back. I read this yesterday.

Eight flights a day.

Biden is adamant about no one coming in because of COVID-19

Haiti has very very low vaccinated rate.

[Moebym]

6. Less than 1%

The country received a shipment of 500k Moderna doses in July, but the pace, while initially high, has slowed because of the earthquake and political unrest stemming from the assassination of their president.

Source: Miami Herald

It's a terrible situation all around. On the one hand, with the rise of the Delta variant in our own country, deporting asylum seekers from a country with less than 1% of its population vaccinated makes some sense, but on the other hand, we're sending them back to a nation in shambles and deportation means they can't simply turn around and come back...

I don't envy anyone in charge of having to make decisions such as this and won't pretend that I know the answers.

[cinematicdiversions]

11. We have always sent the Haitians back. Cubans, Irish there are okay Haitians not so much.

Democrat or Republican the policy has always been the same. It is just the excuses that change.

[Peregrine Took]

12. What about the Irish?

They should be sent back even though they came to the country legally?

[cinematicdiversions]

13. There are a lot of illegal Irish in the northeast.

We tend to ignore this.

[rockfordfile]

7. Haiti needs to start vaccinating more people

[Moebym]

8. Right, but its easier said than done

They're still recovering from a devastating earthquake and the assassination of their president earlier this year, so the pace has been understandably slow.

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. K&R

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10. K&r