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Caribbean-Latin America
Options Shrink for Haitian Migrants Straddling Texas Border
2021-09-22
[AnNahar] The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants colonists straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government ramps up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti Tuesday and Mexico began busing some away from the border.

More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants colonists had been removed from an encampment at Del Rio, Texas, U.S. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately expelling migrants colonists to their impoverished Caribbean country and faced criticism for using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town.
But only a portion of those removed were actually sent back to Haiti, the rest apparently being sent elsewhere in the U.S. to be processed.
That was enough for some Haitian migrants colonists to return to Mexico, while others struggled to decide on which side of the border to take their chances.
Posted by:trailing wife

#15  Off the pile from a whole other context...

Scattered Parasite, or, The Hostal Paradox

'Tis simple defining a line
Along land, even coast (okay, whine ;-)),
But borders internal
Are sorta infernal
To tend and to mend.
Our new friends in the end
Will make cancer seem almost benign.
Posted by: Clyde the Hairy8275   2021-09-22 17:31  

#14  /\ That makes too much sense. The gov't would never approve such a measure.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-22 16:24  

#13  We've got Coast Guard on anti-piracy duty halfway around the world, seems we could put some of them on stopping boatloads of refugees leaving Haiti.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-22 15:55  

#12  Who is paying for their movement to Mexico and funding the logistics along the way to the US Border? This is full-on political imagery designed to further destabilize the political climate in the US. In a more sane time this might be construed as an act of sabotage or even war, but we stopped being THAT United States a long time ago, or at least being led by people like that...
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-09-22 12:47  

#11  Those were not whips. Period. Reins the riders use to control their horses. The angle of the photo made them appear as whips. Back to the lies and ignorance prevailed as always.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-09-22 12:01  

#10  c'mon gov abbot, save the US by seceding from it.
You and Paxton can do it and resurrect our constitution. With amendments of course.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-09-22 11:33  

#9  They're mostly not going back to Haiti.
They did a couple of planes for photo ops. Once they have been taken away from the TV cameras, they're being flown out and dispersed throughout the US.
This at a time when, if you don't wear a mask on a plane, it sets off a gestapo reaction.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-09-22 11:00  

#8  ^ Early Snark O' The Day candidate
Posted by: Frank G   2021-09-22 10:22  

#7  They are probably tired, having walked all the way from Haiti to the Texas border.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-09-22 10:05  

#6  I seriously doubt the $10K expenditure came from their personal pockets
Posted by: Frank G   2021-09-22 09:57  

#5  If they'd stayed home, they'd have saved $10,000 a piece. Imagine the options they'd have in that case.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-09-22 09:39  

#4  ^ back onto ... the wheel wells?
Posted by: DaBigGuy   2021-09-22 09:08  

#3  ...According to Fox News, some of our people were injured in Haiti when we got them off the airplane...and they tried to get right back on.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-09-22 08:54  

#2  We have whips. They carry viruses. And no doubt a terrorist or two
Posted by: DaBigGuy   2021-09-22 08:23  

#1  Thousands of Haitian migrants camped in Texas town being let into US, report says
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-22 07:17  

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