in other headlines, mexico s government sent 70 haitian migrants back to haiti yesterday in what it described as a voluntary return flight. this came just days after the united states cleared thousands of haitians from a camp that they d been staying in near the us mexican border. officials from the biden administration are in haiti this week, meeting with local government leaders about both the migrant crisis and the ongoing political instability within haiti. i got the latest from our central america correspondent will grant, who is in haiti. their intentions were to make it to the us. indeed, they did that. they were under that bridge at the makeshift camp in texas. they thought and very much hoped that they would now be processing their asylum applications in the united states, living with families in the united states and taking steps to normalise their asylum positions and their migration papers in the us. of course, these were the ones who didn t get that result,
address immediately so i had to use my own budget. so, getting money from the federal government is a little bit time consuming. steve: sure. one of the things though, chief, you are the fire department, and you are there to help people in your community when fire breaks out or there is a medical emergency. but now you are being asked to have additional responsibility of helping people who are breaking into the country illegally, that s not exactly what you signed up for originally. well, you know, we look at every patient the same way. we don t ask for immigration papers. we treat every patient as a medical patient. so, it we don t know if they re in here illegally or not. it s our assumption. we treat them as such. steve: the number of calls you are called on has gone up substantially, hasn t it? we have we estimate it s gone up about 6% to 7%. especially in the southern part of our response district. it clean-up is not a huge number
lagging behind the vaccination rates of their majority counterparts. the issue is not only access but a lot of the hesitation because of rumors that have been spreading right here in this community. take a listen to something that this woman told me yesterday. she s a woman who is still currently waiting to get her immigration papers. she said initially, she thought if she went to get the vaccine, immigration would scoop her up and she wouldn t see her four kids again. she s a single mother. she said there were rumors circulating around amongst family and friends. listen to what she told me. what are people here saying? are they ready for the vaccine? someone actually said you will be you have heard rumors that by taking the vaccine, people would actually turn into zombies? people also thought that by tag
taking the vaccine, they would have a chip? to combat that type of misinformation, you have community centers like the guatemalan center going door to door passing out information not only in spanish but also in local indigenous languages. for example, here in miami, there s a big guatemalan community, big mexican community. sometimes those communities don t speak spanish if they are from parts of the country where they speak local indigenous languages. they have partners with the cdc to translate the documents. this is about trust. sometimes the person isn t necessarily a government official. the same government that may not have delivered the immigration papers that they petitioned, they are not trusting them to put something this their body. they are talking to a trusted doctor or friend or community leader. then they are more likely to see progress. that same center, the guatemalan
same democrats who are tearing their garments because of the things either the president or his supporters have said were calling on sebastian bjorka to be debjorted. jerry nadler said we need to see his immigration papers because they were accusing him of being a nazi. this is the insanity of today s politics. what we need to be talking about is the substance of what people like congresswoman omar has said regarding boycott and sanctions on israel. i just got back from there yesterday morning and i ll tell you something, that s crazy stuff. it s crazy. put that on the floor and let every member of the house vote on bds. that would be great. let s see where they stand. heather: we ll talk about that more with you in a moment. everyone keeps talking about moving on. will the media allow the republican party, will the democrats allow the republican party to do that or will this