After several days of living in squalid conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas, the last remaining migrants departed a makeshift camp
After several days of living in squalid conditions under the Del Rio International Bridge, the last remaining migrants departed a makeshift camp there just before noon local time on Friday.
A CNN team captured images under the bridge of the final two buses as they departed for US Customs and Border Protection processing centers. A surge of migrants -- many of them Haitian -- had converged on the temporary site at the bridge, the result of word-of-mouth or social media posts saying that the border at Del Rio was open, US Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz previously said. At times the number topped 14,000.
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