The Department of Homeland Security allowed reporters to watch a deportation flight Friday as the department ramps up its get-tough messaging ahead of an expected border surge next week.
The flight left southern Texas bound for Guatemala with 133 people aboard — 45 women and 88 men. They were all being expelled under the Title 42 pandemic expulsion authority, officials told journalists.
Analysts are bracing for encounters with illegal immigrants to surge from roughly 6,000 a day in March to perhaps twice that number once Title 42 is gone. Homeland Security is trying to adopt a tough posture ahead of the end of Title 42, with the access to a deportation flight coming as part of that campaign.Migrants were brought to the airplane in shackles and an official said they remain shackled on the flight.
Flights run to South America and Central America daily and to the Caribbean weekly, the official said. The Biden administration is catching and releasing most of the others — particularly those from countries that don’t have such extensive cooperation with the U.S. on taking back their deportees.
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