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Biden administration insists border is

closed amid removal of Haitian migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas indicated Haitians are being falsely told

by human smugglers they can qualify for temporary protected status in the U.S.

(CN) — As the Biden administration scrambles

to repatriate more than 10,000 Haitians who
gathered in a Texas border town last week to

ask for asylum, immigration officials speaking
in the town Monday repeated one message:

“Our borders are not open. And people should
not make the journey.”

Calling the situation “challenging and

heartbreaking,” Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas said U.S. Customs and

Border Protection has assigned 600 agents to
Del Rio, Texas, and is supplying food, water

and medics for Haitian migrants, including
families with infants, amassed under a bridge (Image from Border Patrol Facebook page via Courthouse News)

just across the Rio Grande from Acuña, Mexico.

The Biden administration is still enforcing a Centers
With temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for Disease Control and Prevention order known as
in Del Rio on Monday, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Title 42, initiated last year by former President Donald

Raul Ortiz said at a press briefing that his Trump, under which the United States is promptly
agency, in coordination with Immigration and expelling most migrants, though not unaccompanied

Customs Enforcement and the Coast Guard, is children and some families, without letting them
moving the immigrants from Del Rio to other apply for asylum, citing public health concerns amid

processing places in Texas. the pandemic.

“We continue to exercise Title 42 authority,” Mayorkas
He said 2,500 had been transported from the site said Monday. “It is not an immigration authority, but

Sunday and the crowd is quickly diminishing as a public health authority to protect the American
Homeland Security has already started flying public, communities along the border and migrants
people back to Haiti. themselves.”

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