The Good News: The shanty town beneath the bridge in Del Rio is slowly diminishing in size. It may be back in the 8,000-9,000 range after having topped out at an estimated 16,000 a few days ago.
The Bad News: Most of the departed are now de facto Americans soon to be living near you.
Although the Biden administration has begun flights to Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien carrying a hundred or so adult men each time, and although it keeps promising to expand the number of flights, in fact most of the Haitians who’ve been removed from Del Rio are now in cities like El Paso, Laredo, and Tucson. What’s more, our leaders are planning to soon move them yet farther into our country’s interior and adopt them as full-fledged Americans. In the words of one unnamed official, the Haitians, mostly family units, have been released on a “very, very large scale” in recent days.
Those released, some of whom have been spotted at the local bus station in Del Rio while others are being placed on government airplanes, are reportedly being asked to appear at an immigration office within 60 days.
“If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned released!” – DHS Secretary Mayorkas
Meanwhile, those deportation flights to Haiti (there were four yesterday though the government promises more) are not going all that well. There is opposition not only from the returnees–most of whom originally left Haiti for South America years ago–but also from some Haitian authorities. After one of the flights landed yesterday in Port-au-Prince, dozens of the returnees tried to rush back on board and began throwing rocks and shoes at the plane as the door closed behind them, injuring three ICE officers.
Among the authorities, the Office of Citizen Protection has called for a moratorium on the flights, while the head of Haiti’s national migration office, Jean Negot Bonheur Delva, agreed, saying, “The Haitian state is not really capable to receive these deportees.” At last count, 344 organizations, foreign and domestic, have demanded that the expulsions cease, while U.N.’s high commissioner for refugees has charged the expulsions may “violate international law.”
Typically, the administration and the mainstream media such as NPR have looked for ways to distract the ever-gullible American public away from their disaster by wrenching from them pity and outrage. They have consequently latched onto photos of horseback agents attempting to prevent illegal migrants from breaking America’s laws.
Upon viewing scenes like that above, putative immigration czarina Kamala Harris dutifully pronounced herself “horrified.” The enforcement of laws they disagree with always horrifies these people.