Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is traveling to Del Rio, Texas, on Monday for a briefing on how the Biden administration is responding to a migrant surge in the area.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Mayorkas will meet with"state and local partners" 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.
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.
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