Thousands of migrants were crowded in the makeshift camp under the Del Rio International Bridge. They sleep in the dirt, surrounded by growing piles of garbage and without much food and water in hopes of being processed by the overwhelmed US Border Patrol.
Del Rio, Texas Roselini Villasmil broke down Friday as she recalled the squalid conditions under a bridge in the Texas border town of Del Rio, where more than 12,000 unauthorized migrants are being held for processing by US immigration agents.
"We told our son we were camping so he wouldn't worry," said the 33-year-old migrant from Venezuela, who crossed the shallow waters of the Rio Grande with her partner and their four-year-old child. "You're thinking, What will happen to us?" she said of the two days they spent in the teeming staging area shaded by the bridge between Texas and Ciudad Acuña in northeastern Mexico.
More than 9,500 migrants living under bridge at US border 02:56A Homeland Security official said Thursday that expulsion and deportation flights to Haiti will continue.Border crossings have reached the highest level in decades, with US Customs and Border Protection reporting more than 208,000 in August alone and a total this fiscal year of more than 1.5 million.
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