Transcripts for MSNBC Alex Witt Reports 20210919 18:06:00 :

Transcripts for MSNBC Alex Witt Reports 20210919 18:06:00

the border to alleviate this surge in migrants that's tripled since wednesday. at last count 14,000 people, mostly haitian migrants, currently living underneath the bridge behind me, and there could be more coming this way. the concern from authorities, how many more are coming, and also how quickly can they get these people to either processing centers that are not having to deal with the overcrowding like del rio is, or potentially fly them back to haiti. and what makes that interesting is that dhs has said for thousands of the people here, they have not been living necessarily in that island nation now for years, choosing to live in south america but only coming north within the past several months here. and haiti of course struck by that massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake back on august 14. the country is still reeling from that. and yet there are conversations ongoing, according to the federal government, that would facilitate the deportation

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