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know here is that following the 2010 earthquake in haiti that caused a mass migration to south america. many migrants beneath the bridge worked there specifically with the 2016 olympics when those jobs dried up, opportunities went away and then they felt like they had an opportunity for a better life and that s how they ended up here over the last week. i asked why de rio? he said it was known that it was a relatively easy crossing and that word of mouth spread incredibly quickly when a few hundred and then a few thousand came here, only a bus ticket away and then made the way into mexico and mexican officials last week had not been checking the buses the way they are today which has alleviated a problem of several hundred if not thousand migrants just across the river from continuing to
at last check about 8,500 migrants remaining under that bridge about a quarter mile from where i m standing, the weekend peak about 15,000 people. we know a thousand have been flown back to haiti, and then the rest essentially have been taken to processing centers from here in de rio, texas, to san antonio, to houston, texas, elsewhere to el paso, to laredo. these all have the facilities that can handle the processing that are not overwhelmed like so many resources are here in del rio. that s part of the process that s been ongoing. you still have 8,500 people beneath a bridge in south texas facing triple digit temperatures in some cases, and after speaking to a 25-year-old haitian man yesterday, he told me he and his wife were under that bridge for the better part of a week, they had limited food, limited water despite the handouts that are being given. in one case it got so bad, steph that he chose to swim back to
here, they were coming down her and talk to them i think they would realize they are not traveling from halfway around the world to go on a camping trip for a few days under this bridge and then go back into mexico, they intend to stay. they know under the biden administration if they can step foot on u.s. soil, they will have a chance to be released into the u.s. either with a future court date or something else, they know that. the word about that has spread, and that is just a basic realit of why so many people are showing up in this surge right here. what just catch and release loo like? look at the video we shot in de rio today. these are migrants being droppe off, busloads of them at a loca ngo and dell real. they get food, water, supplies, they put get put on buses to other cities in the u.s. or we ve seen at the del rio airport flights of haitians going wherever they want. one of our cameramen had come a journalist have been playing ou seeing them all over their figh and it s i
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