Haitians now in Del Rio were “living a pretty good life [in South America] but they are seeing an opportunity to improve their situation,” he says.
“They say they heard Joe Biden was opening the border up so they came.”
Quite logically, these Haitians — who all have cellphones with social media access — took up Biden’s offer.
By last week, border agents in Del Rio were swamped.
So the Biden administration did what it does best: suppress the bad news.
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration tried grounding the camera drone Fox News was using to inform its viewers about the disaster under the Del Rio bridge.
But intrepid Fox reporter Bill Melugin just hitched a ride on a helicopter with Texas troopers to film the scene.
Then he hired a boat to film the migrants streaming across at a rate of hundreds per hour.
Finally, the FAA relented and let the Fox drone fly.
By then, it was too late to bury the story because even Bidenfriendly media, such as the New York Times and CNN, had come to Del Rio.
So Plan B was to play tough.
The announcement came on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security was going to fly all the Haitians back to Haiti starting at 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Sigh of relief. Crisis averted.
But not so fast. That’s not exactly what happened.
According to Bensman and other reporters in Del Rio, Haitians who are eligible for asylum (how long is a piece of string?) are being quietly placed in unmarked buses and onto planes and dispersed to other parts of the United States under a cloak of extreme secrecy.
“What’s happening is real-time threats,” Del Rio’s Democratic mayor, Bruno Lozano, said in a video appeal last week, begging Biden and “border tsar” Vice President Kamala Harris to rescue his town from invasion. He fears COVID-19 and other communicable diseases as well as potential terror threats.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz held a press conference in Del Rio on Sunday to announce that the situation was under control.
“No one has crossed since midnight,” he said after a dozen Texas Department of Public Safety vehicles were parked across the entry point to temporarily block migrants from using a dam wall to walk across the river.
Ortiz boasted that 3,300 migrants had been moved out from under the bridge since Friday. As of midday Sunday, there were still 12,600 migrants camping there, with another 3,000 to be moved out by Monday.
But where they are being moved to, he didn’t exactly say.
It turns out just 327 were sent back to Haiti on three flights Sunday, according to a DHS spokesperson. They were reportedly all adult single males. The rest of the 3,300 presumably are family groups who will be processed and released.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/20/the-truth-behind-the-texas-bridge-migrants/
“They say they heard Joe Biden was opening the border up so they came.”
Quite logically, these Haitians — who all have cellphones with social media access — took up Biden’s offer.
By last week, border agents in Del Rio were swamped.
So the Biden administration did what it does best: suppress the bad news.
Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration tried grounding the camera drone Fox News was using to inform its viewers about the disaster under the Del Rio bridge.
But intrepid Fox reporter Bill Melugin just hitched a ride on a helicopter with Texas troopers to film the scene.
Then he hired a boat to film the migrants streaming across at a rate of hundreds per hour.
Finally, the FAA relented and let the Fox drone fly.
By then, it was too late to bury the story because even Bidenfriendly media, such as the New York Times and CNN, had come to Del Rio.
So Plan B was to play tough.
The announcement came on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security was going to fly all the Haitians back to Haiti starting at 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Sigh of relief. Crisis averted.
But not so fast. That’s not exactly what happened.
According to Bensman and other reporters in Del Rio, Haitians who are eligible for asylum (how long is a piece of string?) are being quietly placed in unmarked buses and onto planes and dispersed to other parts of the United States under a cloak of extreme secrecy.
“What’s happening is real-time threats,” Del Rio’s Democratic mayor, Bruno Lozano, said in a video appeal last week, begging Biden and “border tsar” Vice President Kamala Harris to rescue his town from invasion. He fears COVID-19 and other communicable diseases as well as potential terror threats.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz held a press conference in Del Rio on Sunday to announce that the situation was under control.
“No one has crossed since midnight,” he said after a dozen Texas Department of Public Safety vehicles were parked across the entry point to temporarily block migrants from using a dam wall to walk across the river.
Ortiz boasted that 3,300 migrants had been moved out from under the bridge since Friday. As of midday Sunday, there were still 12,600 migrants camping there, with another 3,000 to be moved out by Monday.
But where they are being moved to, he didn’t exactly say.
It turns out just 327 were sent back to Haiti on three flights Sunday, according to a DHS spokesperson. They were reportedly all adult single males. The rest of the 3,300 presumably are family groups who will be processed and released.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/20/the-truth-behind-the-texas-bridge-migrants/
