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2021-09-21 -Land of the Free
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Mayorkas rushes to Texas border sector overwhelmed by migrants, admits 'challenging situation'; thousands of Haitians go back to Mexico, but only 327 sent to Haiti on 3 flights Sunday
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[FoxNews] Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to Del Rio, Texas, on Monday for a briefing on how the Biden administration is responding to a migrant surge in the area.
"Rushes?" What's he been doing all this time?
Mayorkas channeling Obama: "First I heard about this, I read it in the news today"
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Mayorkas is meeting with state and local officials to address the situation, in which thousands of predominantly Haitian migrants are flooding the border. Many have set up a de facto camp under a bridge to shelter from the 100-degree heat as their numbers swell and they wait to be processed by Border Patrol.
"We certainly are experiencing a challenging situation, but we are surging resources and we have a multipronged approach to this," Mayorkas told CNN on Sunday. He said that so far the administration had added 600 agents as part of a surge in the region and was working with with American Red Cross and World Central Kitchen to bring supplies and food to people.
Mayorkas discouraged more people from rushing to the border to try and enter the U.S., especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We have sent a very clear message early on in light of the fact that we are in the midst of a pandemic, that the border is not open and people should not take the perilous journey here," he said. "We are returning people to other countries."
Lawmakers, including Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, have said the situation was sparked in part by a halt to deportation flights by the Biden administration. Pfluger said Haitians and others who were waiting in Central America took that as a green light to come to the U.S.
"So when those flights were stopped by the U.S. government...they got the word and it was like ‘go time,’" he said.
On Friday, the administration closed down the Del Rio point of entry, instead directing migrants to Eagle's Pass 57 miles away.
DHS announced Saturday it was taking a number of additional steps to address the matter, including ramping up deportation flights to Haiti, moving people from Del Rio to other processing centers, and having Border Patrol emergency medical technicians in Del Rio to provide water, towels and portable toilets.
Thousands of Haitian migrants cross Rio Grande BACK to Mexico to avoid deportation as DHS ramps up expulsion flights to seven a day - but still Biden and Harris remain silent on crisis
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Haitian migrants began flowing back across the Rio Grande to Mexico over fear of deportation from the U.S. as DHS ramps up removal flights of the 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants
- Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday visited the southern border where migrants set up camp
- 'We certainly are experiencing a challenging situation, but we are surging resources and we have a multi-pronged approach to this,' Mayorkas said
- Removal flights full of migrants began over the weekend, with three planes full of Haitians who fled to the U.S. landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday
- DHS plans to ramp up removal flights to six or seven each day
- President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not addressed the latest developments at the southern border
- Neither have visited the Rio Grande Valley, where they majority of the illegal crossings are taking place
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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. 
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