flying from san antonio back to port-au-prince, many of these migrants who are in texas right now have been living outside of their home country the past several years residing in south america before choosing owe the last several months to make the dangerous journey north to the border.owe the last several months to make the dangerous journey north to the border. this group is about half the population of the entire city of del rio where we are right now. so this is going to be really the first day that we re seeing the full deployment of these state and federal resources that arrived here last night. we saw a swarm of state trooper vehicles drive to the border and park pretty much on the banks of the rio grand sending a very clear message to the high grants that with are still across the river, do not come over at this point in time. they are still trying to process those here. and that is going to take weeks if not longer.
deaths. joining us now, morgan chesky, and we have breaking news in texas where the biden administration is responding to this new surge of migrants, most of whom are from haiti. nearly 15,000 men, win and children are right now gathered in del rio, texas, many are crammed under a bridge as you see there. today the u.s. is beginning to fly these migrants back to haiti. as we go to morgan chesky, this surge grew lightning fast it seems. how did this happen? reporter: yeah, several different answers to that. but the shear numbers really tell a remarkable story here. 5,000 migrants were living under this bridge or had moved under this bridge behind me on wednesday. as you mentioned, that number has now tripled to now 15 thourk. and important to note here, as the deportation flights resume
we know that in addition to those deportation flights, they will also be used what they call lateral flights, that will be planes used to fly them from del rio to other centers and hopefully process them smoothly in other states or at other border crossings herin texas. and we re approaching 100 degrees here. and the heat exposure, the food and water still very much a concern despite pallets being dropped off by local authorities. we know he that that is a constant need here in del rio. so it will be very interesting to see where we are 24 hours from now to see how efficiently this massive surge of state and federal resources can process my grants that are still here. and are you seeing at all
that we saw such a visible force of the state troopers packing feet away from the banks of the rio grande facing mexico, that stream that was seemingly constant with those videos that we have been seeing has at least to have stopped for now. but that doesn t mean that there are not hundreds if not thousands still waiting in mexico for a chance to cross. and you know i m thinking just as i look at the pictures that we re being provided not everybody is wearing a mask to say the least. i m sure covid concerns are part of the reason why they are keeping distance as well. a lot going into all this. morgan, thank you so much. let s go now from texas to mike memoli in rehoboth beach, delaware traveling with the president. busy week ahead. what is on his agenda? reporter: well, foreign policy, that is joe biden s wheelhouse, right? that is what we had seen over the course of his career. a foreign policy heavy week for the president and as you look at the schedule for the week ahead, you g