About 12,000 migrants — including families, pregnant women and babies — crowded Sunday into squalid makeshift camps under and around the bridge between Texas and Ciudad Acuña in northeastern Mexico, authorities said.
Del Rio, Texas Standing in the sweltering Texas sun, Jameson Tilus held both of his children in his arms and described the desperate conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge.
The 26-year-old Haitian national and his family arrived about a week ago after crossing the Rio Grande River. Getting food has been difficult, Tilus said, and he worries about all the children, including his own, who are exposed to the extreme heat and a storm that rolled through this weekend.DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border"We're suffering here," Tilus told CNN on Sunday.
Thousands of migrants crowd into makeshift camp at US border 02:48Haiti is a"dangerous country" now because of the recent presidential assassination and earthquake, Nicole Phillips, the legal director for Haitian Bridge Alliance, an advocacy group for Haitian migrants, told CNN on Monday."People still have yet to get drinking water and medical care," she said.
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