Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said Monday they would look into agents on horseback using what appeared to be whips and their horses to push back migrants at the river between Acuña and Del Rio, a city of about 35,000 people roughly 145 miles (230 kilometers) west of San Antonio where thousands of migrants remain camped around a bridge. The Haitian migrants who are already in Mexico's detention centers and have not requested asylum will be the first to be flown directly to Haiti once Mexico begins those flights, according to the official. The second official said the plan was to move to Tapachula all Haitians who had already solicited asylum in Mexico, since Tapachula is where most of them would have applied and they can only legally remain in Mexico while their case is processed if they stay in the south. The flight carried about 100 migrants who had been picked up around the bus station in Monterrey, a hub for various routes north to the U.S. Tapachula is home to the largest immigrant detention center in Latin America. The other official said there was a flight Monday from the northern city of Monterrey to the southern city of Tapachula near the Guatemala border. One of the officials said three busloads of migrants left Acuña on Tuesday morning for Piedras Negras, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) down the border, where they boarded a flight to the southern city of Villahermosa in the state of Tabasco. Mexico has also begun flying and busing migrants from Ciudad Acuña to southern Mexico to relieve pressure on that stretch of border, according to two Mexican federal officials who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. 'What they are asking for is to be allowed to pass freely through Mexico to the United States,' Ebrard said. Ebrard said most of the Haitians already had refugee status in Chile or Brazil and most weren't seeking it in Mexico. counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, about the Haitians' situation. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said Tuesday he had spoken with his U.S. Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family's life.' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conceded it was a 'challenging and heartbreaking situation,' but he issued a stark warning: 'If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned. We're here to tell you, it exists, it's total chaos, and the Biden administration, they need to up their game big time.' 'The only thing they have shown is an incapability of dealing with this crisis, candidly in a way where they pretend it doesn't even exist. 'They have shown no capability of being able to process all of these migrants by the end of the week,' Abbott said. He continued to slam the Biden administration and expressed skepticism the area would be cleared soon. Greg Abbott, during a visit to Del Rio on Tuesday, said the county's top official told him the most recent tally was about 8,600 migrants who remain there. 'They are grabbing people, they bother us, especially Haitians because they identify us by skin,' he said.īut thousands of people remain at the camp in Texas. side, some for fear of being deported and others because of a lack of food.Ĭharles said he did not want to leave the area, which is gradually becoming a new camp on the Mexican side, for fear of arrests. Jean Claudio Charles, 34, his wife and their 1-year-old son were stretching at dawn on Tuesday after sleeping on cardboard in a park by the river with 300 others who chose to return to Mexico from the U.S. That was enough for some Haitian migrants to return to Mexico, while others struggled to decide on which side of the border to take their chances. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately expelling migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and faced criticism for using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town. More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants had been removed from an encampment at Del Rio, Texas, U.S. DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - Options narrowed Tuesday for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border as the United States government ramped up expulsion flights to Haiti, and Mexico began flying and busing some away from the border.

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